plus 2, Breast Cancer's Spread Now Better Understood - YAHOO! |
- Breast Cancer's Spread Now Better Understood - YAHOO!
- Woman awaiting extradition in N.J. jail sues over cancer - Philadelphia Daily News
- Mayor lauds wife's spirit after latest cancer setback - Chicago Tribune
| Breast Cancer's Spread Now Better Understood - YAHOO! Posted: 07 Dec 2009 08:19 AM PST |
| Woman awaiting extradition in N.J. jail sues over cancer - Philadelphia Daily News Posted: 07 Dec 2009 01:16 AM PST NEWARK, N.J. - A Costa Rican woman who was on an international most-wanted list after a 1997 slaying until her U.S. arrest last year has sued over what she says is a lack of health services in New Jersey - so severe that her advanced stage of breast cancer went undetected. A lawyer for Maria Magdalena Pacheco Bolanos, 39, said his client had gone from a young woman who panicked and fled Costa Rica after the death of a prominent newspaper executive to a mother of three living in a $1 million home on Long Island, N.Y., where she ran a successful landscaping business. Attorney Gil Garcia alleges Pacheco's former boyfriend was responsible for the slaying. Pacheco is charged as an accomplice. The international police organization Interpol caught up to the woman in April 2008. She was arrested on Long Island and is in the Hudson County Correctional Center in New Jersey pending extradition to Costa Rica. Garcia said his client had not had access to a doctor or undergone medical tests for 10 months of her detention, despite repeated complaints to medical staff that she felt a lump in her breast. When an immigration judge ordered Pacheco taken to a doctor, advanced breast cancer was diagnosed, and she had a mastectomy, Garcia said. "It's not so much the issue of a latent diagnosis," he said, but it's tantamount "to cruel and unusual punishment under the Constitution. If you commit cruel and unusual punishment - and it could be tantamount to a death sentence in this case - they have to pay for it." The suit was filed Wednesday in federal court in Newark. Jim Kennelly, a Hudson County spokesman who handles jail inquiries, said he would look into the complaint, but had no immediate comment. A representative of the Costa Rican consulate in New York said inquiries about the case must be submitted in writing and would be referred to government officials in Costa Rica. Garcia denied the lawsuit was an attempt to delay his client's extradition. He said she was cooperating with U.S. and Costa Rican authorities on her transfer. Meanwhile, he said, her requests for timely radiation treatments have been delayed. "Inmates have many more medical issues than the general population, and receive much worse medical attention," Garcia said. "They are in jail for a reason - there's no doubt about that - but to deny them the proper medical care adds an extra layer to their punishment that is not contemplated by the law."
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| Mayor lauds wife's spirit after latest cancer setback - Chicago Tribune Posted: 04 Dec 2009 07:18 AM PST |
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