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Glicklich testified yesterday that none of the doctors recommended a biopsy which Robbins said "is the only sure way to dtermine if a lump is cancerous...
Robbins, the second cancer expert Glicklich's attorney. Clyde Bergstresser, has called to the witness stand since the proceedings began last Wednesday, said that if Glicklich had undergone a biopsy when she first noticed her lump in 1978, she would have had a 94-per-cent chance of living for at least ten years...
...testimony last week, Dr. Alan Spievack, one of the UHS physicians named in the suit, said he advised Glicklich to have a mammogrem x-ray test, adding that the results of the test convinced him that the lump was not cancerous...
Robbins, however, said that Spievack should not have based his diagnosis on the X-ray test, which he said often yields inaccurate results. Robbins also criticized the conduct of another defendant, Dr. Joan Golub, a private gynecologist Glicklich first consulted after discovering the lump...
Golub initially performed a needle aspiration on Glicklich, which determined that the lump was solid, rather than fluid. Fluid cysts are common and are usually not cancerous, while firm lumps are potentially cancerous...