Marathon runner in race to help ailing wife
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Rick Kaitz had run three Boston Marathons and swore he’d never do another. “Training in winter in New England is awful,” said Kaitz, 58, a Boston attorney. “It’s so cold, icy, and dark.”
But on April 15, he was at the starting line in Hopkinton, racing for his wife’s life.
Initially told she had benign fibroid tumors, Erica Kaitz was diagnosed last year with uterine leiomyosarcoma (LMS), a rare and aggressive cancer of the smooth muscle cells.
The couple consulted the top three cancer institutes on the East Coast: Dana-Farber, Duke, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering in New York. “We had three different recommendations for treatment,” said Rick Kaitz. “It became clear that the top doctors don’t know anything about it.” Full story for BostonGlobe.com subscribers.
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