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Monday, June 20, 2005


This is the saddest thing I've ever read: "Woman on Life Support to Try to Save Fetus."

"Torres collapsed on May 7 after complaining about headaches and nausea. Hospital physicians discovered a melanoma, treated nine years earlier, had recurred metastasized to her brain . . .

"'It's very rare to have placental metastasis, but if you had to pick a tumor that would do this, melanoma would be the tumor that would do this kind of rare thing,' Dr. Hymes said . . .

. . . "If the baby makes it to 25 weeks, as the Virginia physicians hope to do, odds of survival jump to 70% . . .

. . . "Torres' husband told The Washington Post his wife is beginning to look pregnant."


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