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Jane Gumble has a brain tumor, but is rarely far from her post as the state’s housing director.
Jane Gumble has a brain tumor, but is rarely far from her post as the state’s housing director. (Globe Staff Photo / David L. Ryan) Globe Staff Photo / David L. Ryan

Public servant plows through private disease

By Brian C. Mooney
Globe Staff / February 13, 2005

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She remembers it so vividly, the tingling sensation in her legs, the visits to the doctors, and finally the diagnostic test results, which she knew were bad when the physician called out to the technician: ''Tell Jane Gumble to come in here immediately." (Full article: 1472 words)

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