A DyingWish

摘要

I AM DYING. We will all die someday, but my expiration date is sooner than most. At age 41 I am facing my second recurrence of cancer. I was first diagnosed with an advanced and rare type of breast cancer in 2001. This led to a large tumor in my brain last year. Now the cancer has spread to my spinal fluid, which will likely seal my fate within weeks. At my initial diagnosis I participated in a clinical trial evaluating Her-ceptin, a so-called personalized medi- cine (PM) drug targeting a mutation believed to be driving my cancer.