I still remember her clearly. She was a wonderfully vibrant 68-year-old woman from Haiti. She was always impeccably dressed, loved to talk, and had an incredibly infectious laugh. Whenever I walked in to the clinic to see her, her eyes always seemed to smile as broadly as she did.
“Nice to see you, Doc!” she would say. I would return the greeting, and then we would talk business: her metastatic endometrial cancer.
She had undergone surgery for this two years ago and was deemed cancer free. Then, without warning, she started to have vaginal bleeding. Her exam was worrisome, and a biopsy of a mass at the vaginal vault confirmed a recurrence. It was fairly advanced, so she was sent to me to try medical treatment. I had given her combined chemotherapy, aiming for a response if not clinical remission. After three months, we were meeting to review her scans.
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