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A Rare Survival Story in a Brush With a Rare and Deadly Cancer

[Star Tribune, August 27, 2008] Two years ago, Heather Von St. James met with Dr. James Flink of United Hospital in St. Paul, and discovered she had a rare type of cancer called mesothelioma.

After Flink gave her options to either do nothing and live maybe 15 months, try chemotherapy and radiation and probably live five years, or go see Dr. Sugarbaker in Boston, she was on the next plane to Boston. Read the full story on startribune.com...


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