Legal Opinion
Ayash v. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 9, 2005PublishedCited by 227 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGreaney, J.
The plaintiff, Dr. Lois J. Ayash, commenced this action in the Superior Court against the defendants, the DanaFarber Cancer Institute (Dana-Farber or the hospital); Dr. David M. Livingston; Globe Newspaper Company, Inc., publisher of the Boston Globe (Globe); and Globe reporter Richard A. Knox, seeking damages in connection with a series of events that occurred in the aftermath of the discovery that two patients enrolled in an experimental breast cancer treatment study at Dana-Farber had mistakenly been administered a four-fold overdose of a highly toxic chemotherapy drug. One of the…
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