Barry Lackro was exposed to the notoriously toxic defoliant Agent Orange in Vietnam in the early 1970s. He wasn't surprised when he developed prostate cancer in 2004 at age 54, but he took heart that the malignancy was caught early and was highly curable with either surgery or radiation.
Today, almost five years later, he not only has terrible complications from his treatment, but also expects the cancer to kill him. Lackro's complex case raises new questions about the quality of prostate-cancer care provided by the Philadelphia VA Medical Center and its contractor, the University of Pennsylvania Health System.
Lackro is one of the 92 veterans that the Philadelphia VA admits received too little radiation - or too much - from radioactive brachytherapy seed implants done between 2002 and 2008.
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