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IMG CEO's Cancer Misdiagnosed

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Teddy Forstmann misled by doctors for a year.

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Doctors for Teddy Fortsmann, CEO of International Management Group, misdiagnosed his cancer for almost a year and have now determined that he is suffering from the same type of cancer as the late Massachusetts Senator Teddy Kennedy, according to a report from Fox Business. Fortsmann’s medical team blamed his poor health over the past year on a host of other ailments, including meningitis. He only recently learned that he had brain cancer when he went to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. Kennedy died about a year after his diagnosis, but Fortsmann has been responding well to initial treatment, and the tumors that could not be removed have shrunk.

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