Articles Tagged “cancer”

  • Trust But Verify

    by Jill Chapin on Jan 04, 2012 | 2 Comments

    Shortly before she died, the results came back. To no one’s surprise, they showed that her tumor was resistant to the chemo she was given, and was resistant to the next round of chemo her doctor recommended but my sister refused. To make matters unspeakably worse, there were some chemo combinations that would have proven effective, but with days left to live, the results were moot.

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