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Review uncovers 6 more cases of botched cancer treatments at VA in Philadelphia

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

PHILADELPHIA — Six more cases have been found of cancer patients being given incorrect radiation doses at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Philadelphia.

The errors happened in a common surgical procedure to treat prostate cancer. That brings the total to 98 veterans who were given incorrect radiation doses over a six-year period at the hospital.  The program had treated 114 cancer patients before it was halted when the problem surfaced in 2008.

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