Diane Davis thought a diagnosis of advanced ovarian cancer was the answer she had been looking for.

For months, she had been sick. Antibiotics were no help. When she went to the emergency room, a CT scan and MRI showed no definitive answers. She bounced from specialist to specialist. A colonoscopy showed nothing. All the while, Davis had lower back pain and was so nauseous she could barely eat.

"I just got sicker and sicker," she said.

In January 2017, she found herself in the office of Dr. Christopher Darus, a gynecologic oncologist at MaineHealth Maine Medical Center. He was concerned by the multiple cases of cancer in her family history. He scheduled her for exploratory surgery for the next day and found a softball-sized ovarian tumor that had spread to other organs. At last, Davis k

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