A forty-two year-old woman with lung cancer

A woman was widowed at the age of forty. She had two pre-teen children, and was their sole means of support. Within two years of her husband’s death, she developed a cough and unexplained weight loss. One day she coughed up some blood. She called her physician, who saw her immediately and his investigations revealed a large, untreatable lung cancer...    continue story

A forty-five year-old man with two cancers

A man in his forties had two cancers, neither of which was responding to chemotherapy and radiation. He had been given two months to live, and the prospects were not good because a large mass bulging up behind his right collarbone was on the verge of breaking down and ulcerating. His doctors advised him to come into the hospital when this happened. He preferred to focus on his life and what to do with it for the next two months rather than spend it in the hospital....    continue story

A fifty year-old woman with a serious bone cancer

A fifty year old woman found out that she had an advanced bone cancer when her doctor took an x-ray of what he thought was arthritis that had been bothering her for six months without any good response. He referred her immediately to a local oncologist with a particular interest in this illness. Upon confirming the diagnosis, the oncologist immediately placed her on an appropriate chemotherapy protocol....     continue story