Word: breast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rosoff, who worked for the Harvard Community Health Plan (HCHP) at the time, examined Thrope in January of 1984 and again in February 1984 when she complained of a lump in her breast...
That was after Dr. Luke Gillespie '33, who referred Thrope to Rosoff, had examined Thrope and found a lump in her breast...
Nearly a year later, Roger L. Christian, a Harvard instructor in surgery, and Lawrence N. Shulman, a Harvard instructor in medicine, both of whom also worked at HCHP, detected breast cancer which had slowly begun to spread throughout Thrope's body, according to their testimony at the trial...
Albert P. Zabin and Marcia J. Allar, attorneysfor the plaintiff, argued that Rosoff did not doenough to correctly diagnose her. Allar said thatRosoff based his diagnosis solely on feeling thepatient's breast...
...very diffuse kind of cancer, fromthe pathological report," she said, adding thatsuch breast cancer is often not accompanied bylumps...