Associates say the latest breach has left her shaken. She plans to meet with Dr. David Feinberg, chief executive of the UCLA Hospital System, but the meeting has been postponed several times and is being rescheduled.
"She's been invaded -- and these are the people who she entrusted her life to," said Craig J. Nevius, who is producing the upcoming documentary "A Wing and a Prayer," which chronicles Fawcett's battle with anal cancer and her efforts to protect her privacy.
One of Fawcett's lawyers, Kim Swartz, said his client was reluctant to sue over the leaked information, but added, "This is such an ugly situation.
"This has been very hard for her," Swartz said. "Not knowing who has her personal information has taken an incredible toll on her."
Fawcett no longer receives cancer care at UCLA, said Nevius, who produced a reality series featuring Fawcett. Her care is now being overseen by physicians in Germany. She receives follow-up treatment and tests at a different Los Angeles facility.
"She is cautiously optimistic," Nevius said. "Farrah has learned the hard way that with cancer, the test is time. At the moment she has no detectable cancer."
The disclosure about Fawcett comes weeks after The Times reported that UCLA was firing 13 employees and disciplining 12 others for improperly accessing Spears' electronic files while she was treated in its psychiatric hospital. At the time, UCLA officials indicated that the breach was an anomaly.
Asked this week if the records of any other high-profile patients had been perused inappropriately, Klove said, "Not to my knowledge."
As it did in the case of the Spears incident, the California Department of Public Health launched an inquiry into UCLA's handling of Fawcett's files after The Times published the news on its website Wednesday.
Even with greater attention to medical privacy in the United States, the hospital records of high-profile and other patients have been breached across the country as record-keeping systems have become computerized.
One of the most curious aspects of the snooping about Fawcett, Nevius said, is that she went by an alias when under care at UCLA -- and so the employee who viewed her records must have been privy to the alias.
Gitnick, one of Fawcett's doctors at UCLA, said he found the violation of Fawcett's privacy "despicable."
"I have nothing but disdain for people who would do such a thing and who would violate patients' confidence," he said. "We just want the best for Farrah."
