Cancer diagnosis inspires new end-of-life care program

(By Melissa Perrell Phipps for STAT)

Just before Thanksgiving in 2010, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was a sobering way to start the holiday season. My doctors recommended that I have surgery, which was quickly scheduled for the second week of December. Continue reading article here…

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