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...have the cancer return even after the trauma of surgery and the misery of chemotherapy is the nightmare of every patient. When this happens, the outlook is grim. But in recent years doctors have been experimenting with a controversial treatment for advanced and recurring breast cancer that involves massive doses of chemotherapy and a bone-marrow transplant. Annette Crossley, 45, of Glendora, Calif., is hoping it will save her life. Crossley suffered a cancer relapse just a few months after completing a course of treatment that included a mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation. Given slim odds of survival, she chose...
...myth of Eden records the first trauma of homelessness. Home, after that expulsion, is what we make, what we build. We build our own home again, endlessly, in memory of Eden, or hope of it. Past or future. The present is never contented, perfection is hypothetical, and home is always incomplete...
Stokes could not comment on the severity of the injury, but said that Colon would be transferred to the MGH Trauma Center...
...kids come to see me," Ahmetovic laments, and she wonders whether they see the frequent letters she writes. - Ahmetovic saves copies to show them someday "that I didn't forget them, and that I love them." The aunt says she is trying to protect the children from further trauma...
...bites her cheeks while Stubs tickles her with a paper flower. But when Stubs gives the girl's mother a rubber clown nose in a red-nose "transplant," the tiny patient erupts with laughter. For a few moments, at least, Dorothy's mind is off the pain and trauma of being...