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Archive Home > 2009 > June > 21 > At one VA hospital, a rogue cancer unit

At one VA hospital, a rogue cancer unit

Philadelphia unit botched 92 of 116 prostate cancer treatments over a span of more than 6 years

By Walt Bogdanich / The Bulletin
June 21, 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 Kao treated one patient at the veterans’ hospital in Philadelphia, his aim was more than a little off.

Most of the seeds, 40 in....

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