For cancer patients, newest treatments force the ultimate decision, with no room for error

Rachel Lefebvre and her husband, Fred, meet with her oncologist, Dr. Thomas George.
MATTHEW ORR

 

GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Three weeks earlier she'd been done. Done with the chemo and the uncertainty and the fatigue that pinned her to a bed where her husband found her sobbing after he put the boys to sleep. "When can I just pull the plug?" she asked. And now Rachel Lefebvre, 43, and her husband, Fred,…

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