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Three years after stepping down from the top job at Entergy Corp., New Orleans’ lone Fortune 500 firm, Wayne Leonard’s retirement took a bad turn. After being diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer,Leonard was referring to Ochsner Medical Center on Jefferson Highway, where he is involved in a new initiative designed to tailor a cancer patient’s treatment to information found within their tumor’s genetic profile. That information can be used to match patients with early-phase clinical trials and enable them to participate in innovative therapies still under development.

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