Should one always screen for cancer, no matter what the age?
In a video recorded deposition played for the jury, Melser said he probably would have ordered a biopsy if Lindall had been 70 instead of 80.
“The defense was that it is OK not to tell an 80-year-old man that he might have prostate cancer and offer him the chance to be biopsied because the treatment would not extend his life enough to make it worthwhile statistically,” her attorney, Elizabeth Faiella, wrote in an e-mail Thursday.
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