Well: The Right to Choose Your Cancer Treatment

June 13, 2012, 4:05 am by New York Times - Health

Babette Rosmond, the diminutive New York City writer and editor who went public with her breast cancer diagnosis 40 years ago, demanded of her doctors the right to choose her cancer treatment.

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