PHILADELPHIA (AP) - June 21, 2009
The New York Times says a team that performed the procedure
using radiation botched it on 92 of 116 occasions over more than
six years. The paper says the team continued the treatment for a
year even though the equipment that measured whether patients
received the proper radiation dose was broken.
A federal commission announced last fall that an inspection at
the hospital was under way partly because of the number of patients
given incorrect radiation doses. The medical center suspended its
prostate cancer treatment program as a result of the ongoing probe
and the doctor chiefly responsible for the mistakes no longer works
there.
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