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Amid the bustle of scientists and drug company leaders at a fall 2015 lung cancer conference, Lisa Goldman searched for answers.
It had been 20 months since the Mountain View resident — a nonsmoker and spin class instructor with a law degree and two children — was told she had late-stage non-small cell lung cancer. At the time of the diagnosis, her lungs were coated with tumors.
Yet by the time she arrived at the conference, Goldman’s tumors had become less and less distinguishable. She had…