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Volume 345:374-375 August 2, 2001 Number 5
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Letters of Condolence

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To the Editor: The Sounding Board by Bedell et al. on the doctor's letter of condolence (April 12 issue)1 was distressing to read. My wife of 40 years died at a prestigious teaching hospital. For nearly four years she had struggled with carcinoma of the fallopian tube. There were 26 hospital admissions for surgery, chemotherapy, or emergency rehydration. When standard approaches ultimately failed, she managed, largely through her own research, to become enrolled at another distinguished hospital in a high-risk experimental protocol: high-dose chemotherapy followed by transplantation of autologous bone marrow. But the regimen turned out to be lethal. She . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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