title: Dying of cancer: a patient's recollection of her illness and of her doctors.
abstract: A personal account of a patient's long ordeal with cancer of the tongue is presented. The explicit journal begins at the time that a lesion was first detected and ends approximately 4 1/2 years later, just 8 1/2 months before the patient's death from local disease. Important principles of clinical diagnosis and patient management, vividly underscored by this case, are reviewed and discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral Diagnosis, School of Dental Medicine, University of Connecticut, Farmington.
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Krutchkoff
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Eisenberg
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D014062:Tongue Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D014956:Writing