More cancer patients are living longer. Few are getting the help they need to stay healthy
Certainly, no one knew that the Arizona woman would develop three more cancers and heart damage, all likely linked to the aggressive radiation and chemotherapy treatments that helped save her life.
Those treatments were new at the time. When Leigh finished them, apparently cancer-free, she was a pioneer.
“I remember saying to my radiation doctor, what do I do now?" recalls Leigh, 71, a retired cancer nurse. "What do I do to keep this from coming back and to recover?
"He said he really didn’t know. He said maybe I could try taking a good multivitamin pill.”
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