The big case I worked on during 1996, 1997 and 1998 involved a young guy, a cop, who developed Hodgkin's stage IIA, and was treated with combination radiation and chemotherapy. Unfortunately, his physician misread the protocol, and gave him chemo and radiation concurrently. Unfortunately, one of the chemo agents, bleomycin, is potentiated by radiation. Radiation causes tissue damage, but concurrent bleomycin enhances it. The combination caused him to experience radiation damage to his lungs and heart comparable to that which is the result fo treatment for refractory lung cancer.
I know a lot about Hodgkin's. My expert witness was Saul Rosenberg, one of the world's experts on the treatment of Hodgkin's disease. |
