| Harriet Foley always believed her greatest health care threat would be heart disease. After all, her family tree includes several branches with relatives who died from cardiac illnesses, including her mother. So the longtime Nashville resident was shocked when her physician
discovered another life-threatening illness – ovarian cancer.
“I was having a routine physical and the doctor touched a spot on my lower abdomen, and I almost jumped off the table,” Foley remembers. “My doctor told me he wanted me to have an ultrasound, and he made the appointment for me. But it didn’t suit me because I knew perfectly well it wasn’t my destiny to die of cancer; I was going to be a vascular patient.”
When Foley failed to keep that initial appointment, Lonnie Burnett, M.D., Frances and John C. Burch professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, made another appointment for a diagnostic ultrasound, and he insisted his longtime patient go in for the test. This time Foley kept the appointment and underwent an ultrasound examination which revealed a mass in one of her ovaries. continued>> |
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