"Dr. Philip Hoffman, a cancer expert and professor at the University of Chicago who reviewed Wise's medcial records for the defense, said the delay cost him his chance at surviving the cancer. Had the tumor been caught in time, he would have had an 80 % chance of living past five more years with surgery alone, Hoffman said. But the delay cut that survival rate to 41 %, Hoffman wrote in a Nov. 25, 2024 letter to his sentencing judge."
""We're devastated by Terrence Wise's premature death in custody. Terrence died because MDC Brooklyn admittedly botched his medical care, allowing a mass on his lung to triple in size while they failed to read his CT report," Eisner-Grynberg told the Daily News Monday. "He was finally receiving cancer treatment at Maimonides Medical Center when he was abruptly moved to FMC Butner, where he died within seven months. Terrence's death was preventable and his loss profound.""
Terrence Wise, 56, died Nov. 2 at the federal medical center in Butner, N.C., from Stage IIB Non Small Cell Lung Adenocarcinoma. Wise had complained of chest pain and coughing up blood while at MDC Brooklyn, where medical staff delayed reading his CT scan, allowing a cancerous mass to grow substantially. A cancer expert concluded the delay reduced his five-year survival odds from about 80% with timely surgery to 41%. Wise had been serving a sentence related to a Molotov cocktail firebombing conviction and was transferred from Maimonides to FMC Butner before his death.
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