I wrote on DU last week that my husband

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24. Condolences to you and your family

We've lost two members of our family to cancer. My oldest sister twenty years ago to brain cancer and my brother in law six years ago to pancreatic cancer - both in Central Florida.

In both cases the family found that they had to be proactive and not to wait for the doctors and medical personnel to provide information or answers. Someone in the family has to be a pit bull about going after the needed information. In our family's cases, it was my older sister who was the advocate for both relatives. She researched the cancers, the various treatments, the quality of care at the available facilities, the individual doctors, and every aspect of possible care.

It's absurd that the time that should be spent with your loved ones when they most need you is instead spent doing the job that our expensive health care system should be doing.

to your family.