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Glicklich had charged that Spievack, Golub and Jones were negligent in failing to correctly diagnose and treat a cancerous lump in her right breast which has spread to her brain and become inoperable. Doctors say Glicklich may die within a year...
Norman L. Sadowsky, clinical instructor in Radiology, said yesterday. "The overall five-year cure rate for breast cancer is only an 18-per-cent chance that the patient will survive five years after treatment. If the tumor is detected early, however, usually through mammography, an X-ray of the breast, the five-year cure rate is about 90 per cent...
...earlier one detects cervix or breast cancer, the better the chance of curing," he said. But he added that "this does not hold for other cancers, such as lung tumors...
...cancer patient Gena Glicklich had received proper treatment from her doctors after discovering a lump in her right breast, her life expectancy would be much higher, a cancer expert testified yesterday during malpractice proceedings against two University Health Services (UHS) physicians and Glicklich's personal gynecologist...
When Glicklich went to UHS in September, 1978, after enrolling in the Graduate School of Education, Golub did not inform doctors there that the lump in Glicklich's breast was firm, the gynecologist also testified...