$13.5m awarded in hospital death
November 6, 2008
The family of a 40-year-old Hopkinton woman who died following a cycle of experimental chemotherapy at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute was awarded a total of $13.5 million yesterday by a Suffolk Superior Court jury, according to the family’s attorney.
The jury deliberated for nine hours over two days before awarding $9.4 million plus interest in the July 2003 death of Amy Altman, the mother of two young daughters.
The jurors decided that Altman’s death could have been prevented if Dana-Farber doctors had investigated the cause of chronic diarrhea that surfaced during an unusual treatment protocol for a tumor behind her knee, said Robert Higgins, the plaintiff’s lawyer.
Altman developed the diarrhea about two months after she began receiving chemotherapy every two weeks instead of the standard regimen of once every three weeks for Ewing’s sarcoma, Higgins said. That form of cancer affects bone and soft tissue and usually afflicts adolescents and children between the ages of 10 and 20.
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