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Angela Pike's narrative highlights a similar struggle. Her husband, Tracy, was diagnosed with stage four stomach cancer in 2023. Weighing a staggering 250 pounds before his diagnosis, Tracy’s health rapidly declined, and he lost over a hundred pounds due to the severity of his condition. His doctors recommended a specific chemotherapy procedure that a cancer center in Houston was willing to perform. Just hours before the scheduled surgery, however, Angela received the shocking news that their insurance provider, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois, denied the procedure citing it as "experimental."