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Teresa Gilewski, MD
New York, NY

JAMA. 2001;286:3052-3053.

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He stood before us and said he wasn't sure that he had anything to say that would be worthwhile for us to hear. I suppose that some in the audience initially wondered the same thing. As his story unfolded, however, he easily pulled us into his world, 15 years ago, when he began his struggle against cancer. He was a tall man with an athletic physique, so it was difficult to imagine him 60 pounds lighter, bald, and enduring the physical and emotional pain that came with his illness. His plans after graduation from college were drastically changed with the discovery that he had metastatic testicular cancer. For three years he underwent numerous chemotherapy regimens and operations to treat the cancer and its associated life-threatening complications. Much of that time he was hospitalized. He was told repeatedly that his chances for survival were minimal and, with his . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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