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Greek doctors gave the disease its name (the word cancer means crab) and described cancer of the breast which, in advanced stages, has the appearance of a central lump with lines (or claws) extending from...
...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...
...half years ago, Gena Glicklich, a 39-year-old student at the School of Education, noticed a small lump in one of her breasts. A year later, the lump had grown to the size of a melon, and Glicklich had a biopsy performed. Nine months from now, Glicklich...
When Glicklich finally had a biopsy in July, 1979--three months after seeing Spievack and 11 months after she first noticed a lump in her right breast -the tumor had grown from one to ten centimeters and was then inoperable, her attorney said...
...defense claims that the lump found by Spievack in April, 1979, had disappeared when Glicklich was reexamined by Dr. Herbert B. Hechtman, associate professor of Surgery and a surgeon at UHS, in June of that year. That indicates that the lump Spievack reported was noncancerous, defense attorney Raymond J. Kenney Jr., said yesterday...