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The Nation - News from May 26, 1985

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Cancer and natural causes--not a mistaken injection--killed Lillian Cedeno, who died 86 days after she was left paralyzed and comatose after an anti-cancer drug was injected into her spine, doctors in Albany, N.Y., said. “The cancer had started on the right side of her face and spread throughout her body,” causing massive shock and hemorrhaging, a coroner’s autopsy found. Cedeno, 21, of Schenectady, who gave birth three months prematurely by Caesarean section on March 16, was pronounced dead Friday. Her newborn girl died after 24 days in intensive care.

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