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Movie, to be quite honest with you, i felt the same way that everybody else felt when they first heard about it. then he explained to me, yes, its done every day, this is a legal business. and then i began to do my own research on the industry. so that was my first meeting with michael. >> like any case, if you dont know it, you have to educate yourself. if its a medical case, you have to speak to a medical doctor. if its a bone case, you have to speak to the people who process bone. then i lear...

>> what mastromarino did was to light a flame under my imagination that will never be stilled. even though it has been years since this happened, and i try and put it out of my mind, when i do revisit it, all i can think of you know, he died at midnight. so it was dark and someone stole his body in the middle of the night. >> my father was skinned, and they took 900 square inches of skin, every bone they could and mutilated him. that breaks my heart. i have low testosterone. there, i said it.

The bone has cancer so now the recipient has cancer. thats just not true. these are where i have problems with the industry and the so-called smart guys make up these rules. i would like to sit down with these smart people and talk about them. >> my name is john heeley. im a physician and orthopedic surgeon, professor of orthopedics at cornell university medical school in new york, and the chief of orthopedics at sloan-kettering cancer center in new york city. >> dr. heeley was the expert that b...

Was doing well. the companies are doing well. theyre wall street companies. the day i got indicted they stopped trading on the stock market. i mean, if that doesnt show you some influence, i mean, i dont know what does. >> michael mastromarino crook and scum though he is, he is a cog in the wheel. >> he is an engine that was running and bone was the fuel and everybody wanted it as far as the industry goes and that is the truth. and i was a part of that.

Was not conducted in the standard way. these donors could have been infected and the processing not been sufficient to cleanse that bone and make it safe for transplantation. several of them actually had cancer. >> cancer -- to cancer, again, lets go back to cancer. we spoke about this earlier. unless it was lymphoma, leukemia, breast cancer doesnt affect the bone. brain cancer doesnt affect the bone. lung cancer, not unless it is metastatic cancer, there is no infection in the bone. >> however,...

Was bone against bone, and the recommendation was that it be built back up and packed with various bone, including from my own right hip, as well as cadaver bone. i recall very well when he used the word "cadaver bone," i thought, ew. i actually received two separate pieces of tissue, bone, from two separate cadavers. this was used to fuse my lower spine. after the surgery, i felt fantastic. >> after my father had passed on, his funeral was at the

Thats out of a frankenstein movie, to be quite honest with you, i felt the same way that everybody else felt when they first heard about it. then he explained to me, yes, its done everyday, this is a legal business. and then i began to do my own research on the industry. so that was my first meeting with michael. >> like any case, if you dont know it, you have to educate yourself. if its a medical case, you have to speak to a medical doctor. if its a bone case, you have to speak to the people wh...

Compressed down so much that it was bone against bone, and the recommendation was that it be built back up and packed with various bone, including from my own right hip, as well as cadaver bone. i recall very well when he used the word "cadaver bone," i thought, ew. i actually received two separate pieces of tissue, bone, from two separate cadavers. this was used to fuse my lower spine. after the surgery, i felt fantastic. >> after my father had passed

The bone has cancer so now the recipient has cancer. thats just not true. these are where i have problems with the industry and the so-called smart guys make up these rules. i would like to sit down with these smart people and talk about them. >> my name is john heeley. im a physician and orthopedic surgeon, professor of orthopedics at cornell university medical school in new york, and the chief of orthopedics at sloan-kettering cancer center in new york city. >> dr. heeley was the expert that s...

Infected and the processing not been sufficient to cleanse that bone and make it safe for transplantation. several of them actually had cancer. >> lets go back to cancer and we spoke about this earlier. unless it was lymphoma, leukemia, breast cancer doesnt affect the bone. brain cancer doesnt affect the bone. lung cancer, not unless it is metastatic cancer, there is no infection in the bone. >> however, the cancer will have eroded that bone, it will have weakened that bone. the treatment that t...