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Awash in Information, Patients Face a Lonely, Uncertain Road

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By JAN HOFFMAN
Published: August 14, 2005
Nothing Meg Gaines endured had prepared her for this moment. Not the
six rounds of chemotherapy for ovarian cancer that had metastasized to
her liver. Not the doctor who told her, after Ms. Gaines was prepped
for surgery, that he could not operate: a last-minute scan revealed too
many tumors. "Go home and think about the quality, not the quantity, of
your days," he said.

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Nicole Bengiveno/ New York Times
Meg Gaines traveled to Texas and California looking for ways to treat
her ovarian cancer.

BEING A PATIENT
Overwhelmed by Choices

Later articles in this series will look at patients' loss of dignity,
the frustration of waiting and the difficulties of being sick and
alone.


Patients Seek More Information

Getting Help: Patients Turn to Advocates, Support Groups and E-Mail,
Too (August 14, 2005)

Forum: The Life of a Patient

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SEEKING A MEASURE OF CONTROL
When Ira Rich learned he had kidney cancer, his wife, Joyce, studied
records for six specialists, but in the end it was Mr. Rich's doctor
whose referral mattered most.
Not the innumerable specialists whom Ms. Gaines, then 39 and the mother
of two toddlers, had already mowed ...

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