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Gould’s wife, Rhonda Roland Shearer, now claims that the doctors—an oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) and two radiologists at Brigham and Women’s Hospital—overlooked a centimeter-wide lesion in the upper lobe of his lung that later became cancerous...
...husband’s condition was not detected sooner. When earlier this year she showed experts an X-ray of her husband’s chest taken in Feb. 2001, 13 months before the cancer was detected, the experts told her that they were able to see the lesion which led to Gould’s death...
...never heard about this X-ray with the one centimeter lesion [from the hospital],” Shearer said...
...suit, Shearer also alleges that in the period during and after Gould’s diagnosis in New York, doctors at the Harvard-affiliated hospitals reviewed the treatment that Gould received and determined in private meetings that the Feb. 2001 X-ray did indeed show the lesion...
...regrow, but that's being rethought. McDonald has conducted studies with spine-injured rats in which some of the animals are given no therapy after injury and others are given exercise. When their cords are later examined, the stimulated animals show new cell growth at the site of the lesion. "We believe," says McDonald, "that we can induce selective and robust cell growth...