Word: lumps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
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...
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...