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According to the suit filed at Middlesex Superior Court in Cambridge last Friday, earlier detection of the lesion—which had tripled in size by the time it was diagnosed at New York Presbyterian Medical Center in March 2002—could have saved Gould’s life...
...Robert J. Mayer, director of the DFCI Center for Gastrointestinal Oncology and Gould’s long-time principal physician, is a defendant in the suit...
...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...
...Nevertheless, no disclosure was ever made to Professor Gould during his lifetime or to [Shearer] to this date by the defendants, or Dana-Farber or Brigham and Women’s, of that knowledge,” the suit reads...
...radiologists, Rebecca L. Dyson and Salvatore G. Viscomi, are also named in the suit. According to Shearer’s lawyer, Alex H. MacDonald, the two doctors had also confirmed that the early X-ray with the lesion were clear of disease...