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Glicklich contends that three of the doctors who treated her--Dr. Alan R. Spivack, an assistant University Health Services (UHS) surgeon: Dr. Jennifer Jones of UHS; and Dr. Joan Golub, a local private physician--misdiagnosed her cancerous tumor, and she is suing them for negligence...
Glicklich is suing Spievack and Dr. Jennifer Jones of UHS and Dr. Joan Golub, her private physician, for alleged failure to diagnose a cancerous tumor. She contends her doctors led her to believe she was suffering from noncancerous cysts and did not advise her to have a biopsy...
...Norman Sadowsky, Chief of Radiology at Faulkner Hospital, said yesterday it is impossible to tell whether removing the tumor earlier could have saved Glicklich's life...
There is also a fair amount of drama behind him, the sort that did not make it to the big screen. Three winters ago, Diamond collapsed onstage during a concert. Doctors diagnosed a tumor on the spinal cord, and Neil endured a twelve-hour operation and three months in a wheelchair, uncertain whether he would ever walk again...
...tranquilizer led to his being forced out of a research position at the University of Montreal in 1979. Hoffmann-La Roche, the maker of Valium, was quick to dispute his findings last week. Among rats that spontaneously developed cancer, says the company, there was no speed-up in tumor growth when they were given Valium. Moreover, notes Hoffmann-La Roche, human epidemiological studies have revealed no link between cancer and Valium use. That argument, says Horrobin, is irrelevant since such surveys have measured only the incidence of cancer, not the rate at which tumors grow. The final verdict on Valium...