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Monday, June 22, 2009

Sad Story from New York Times About Philadelphia VA Cancer Unit

At V.A. Hospital, a Rogue Cancer Unit 06/22/09. For patients with prostate cancer, it is a common surgical procedure: a doctor implants dozens of radioactive seeds to attack the disease. But when Dr. Gary D. Kao treated one patient at the veterans’ hospital in Philadelphia, his aim was more than a little off. Most of the seeds, 40 in all, landed in the patient’s healthy bladder, not the prostate.It was a serious mistake, and under federal rules, regulators investigated. But Dr. Kao, with their consent, made his mistake all but disappear. NYT

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