Area cancer doctor who mistreated more than 500 patients seeks 25-year

Approximately two years of seething resentment over the suffering of lost loved ones, the relatives of victims in the case of a disgraced cancer doctor will get their chance to confront Farid Fata in court this week. The risks associated with administering unnecessary treatments with Rituximab include “increased susceptibility to infections and later viruses” including “progressive neurological disease, often fatal”. A few possibly died sooner than they should have as a result of his treatments.

“Dr. Fata has systematically defrauded Medicare by submitting false claims for services that were medically unnecessary, including chemotherapy treatments, Positron Emission Tomograph (PET) scans and a variety of cancer and hematology treatments for patients who did not need them”, the criminal complaint explained.

Fata pleaded guilty to fraud in September, admitting that he received millions of dollars from insurance companies for unnecessary treatments.

Victims are in the courtroom. He’s scheduled to be sentenced on Monday. The prosecution is asking for 175 years.

Paul Borman, the District Court Judge of US is asked by the prosecutors for a 175-year prison, but the doctor’s lawyer requested for a twenty-five-year sentence. The cruelty involved is beyond comprehension.

The hearing that will determine whether he spends the rest of his life in prison opens Monday in federal court in Detroit and will last at least four days, with a parade of victims set to testify against Fata, who turned a small one-doctor office into a lucrative medical empire in less than a decade.

“There is an aggressive approach to treating cancer”. He often just stared at the witness, expressionless, and occasionally jotted down something on paper and passed it on to someone at the table.

Some of Fata’s former patients and family members rode to Detroit in a bus bearing a poster that read “Life for Fata”.

The patient was given 195 chemotherapy treatments, 177 of which were unnecessary according to the statement.

A few patients whose iron levels were already at potentially toxic levels received intravenous iron, said Longo, who received $400 per hour for his time testifying and was paid $16,000 for his time invested prior to Monday.

The prosecutor, John Neal, brought up a Fox 2 report about a patient who was operated on for pancreatic cancer.

Patients whom Fata intentionally misdiagnosed with terminal ailments also went through deep emotional struggles.

“When these organs become infiltrated with iron one can get diabetes, one can get heart failure (and) one can get cirrhosis, ” Longo said. The patient told the station that he has suffered from a series of ailments from the chemo.