A Medical Revolution Too Late for the Man Who Started It
Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging / Getty / Katie Martin / The AtlanticWhen I finally met Sanjiv “Sam” Gambhir in person—last November, after months of planning—I knew he was dying.Gambhir knew it, too. Seated in his small, bland office at the end of a warren of hospital hallways in Palo Alto, he was visibly depleted from the cocktail of treatments, some highly experimental, that were being deployed to save him from cancer.