Legal Opinion
Zervos v. Verizon New York, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided January 28, 2002No. Docket Nos. 01-9213(L), 01-9234(XAP)PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Judge JACOBS dissents in a separate opinion.
POOLER, Circuit Judge.
Nickolas Zervos suffers from metastatic breast cancer, an essentially incurable condition that often can be held at bay temporarily either by repeated cycles of conventional chemotherapy or by a single cycle of high dosage chemotherapy followed by an autologous blood stem cell transplant (“HDCT”). On his physician’s advice and after being warned that HDCT often involves more — and more severe — side effects than conventional chemotherapy, Zervos elected to use HDCT because he believed it gave him a chance at a longer period of…
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