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- Veterans Affairs Doctor Misdiagnoses Woman with Breast Cancer...
Posted on 7/20/2010 - Veterans Affairs Hopsital Fails to Notify Patients of HIV Exposure...
Posted on 7/8/2010 - Veterans Affairs Giving Benefits to Marines Exposed to Toxic Water...
Posted on 6/22/2010 - $300 Million to cope with Agent Orange in Vietnam...
Posted on 6/18/2010 - Veteran's Affairs hospital fined for prostate cancer dosage mistakes...
Posted on 3/18/2010
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At V.A. Hospital, a Rogue Cancer Unit
Posted on Jun 22, 2009
For patients with prostate cancer, it is a common surgical procedure: a doctor implants dozens of radioactive seeds to attack the disease. But when Dr. Gary D. Kao treated one patient at the veterans’ hospital in Philadelphia, his aim was more than a little off. Most of the seeds, 40 in all, landed in the patient’s healthy bladder, not the prostate...Had the government responded more aggressively, it might have uncovered a rogue cancer unit at the hospital, one that operated with virtually no outside scrutiny and botched 92 of 116 cancer treatments over a span of more than six years — and then kept quiet about it, according to interviews with investigators, government officials and public records.
For more of this article visit Rogue Cancer Unit.
For a video of the correct procedure versus what was done incorrectly at the VA Hospital visit, Failed Prostate Procedures at the Philadelphia V.A.
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