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106. Dearest Peggy,

These days, the most amazing things can be done to save lives when cancer is involved. Even when it's metastasized into lymph nodes. I don't know what's available where you live, but M.D. Anderson in Houston does amazing cutting-edge work. My friend had an aggressive kidney cancer that had metastasized into some lymph nodes they discovered in removing that kidney. She went to M.D. Anderson for treatment and got the research doctor who had just completed the most recent clinical trials on a new treatment drug as her oncologist. Treatment was far from a picnic, especially with just one kidney. She couldn't take as many doses as recommended and had to be on dialysis for a few months after the chemotherapy. But five years later she is still here. I hope there is a cutting-edge cancer research hospital near you, or that you decide to come to M.D. Anderson. Metastasized cancer sounds awful. But I want you to know the hope that is out there.

In the meantime, I'm praying for your healing.