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Cancer Doctor Found Dead Following ‘Breakthrough’ Discovery
usatoday24x7 ^ | November 28, 2017 | Sean Adl-Tabatabai

Posted on 11/29/2017 8:36:33 AM PST by Main Street

A New York Doctor was found murdered shortly after reporting a “breakthrough” discovery in the cure for cancer.

Dr. Miguel Crespo’s body was found in the bathroom of the Weill Cornell Medical Center on the Upper East Side where he worked, after having gone missing for several hours.

Police initially thought that Dr. Crespo had committed suicide by drug overdose after they found vomit next to his body and “foaming at his mouth.”

However, close friends and family say his death is suspicious, noting that Dr. Crespo had just made an exciting discovery in the field of cancer research and was unlikely to want to end his life at this pivotal stage in his career.

Crespo earned his doctoral degree at the Complutense University of Madrid and was researching a cure for colon cancer at the hospital.

Starting his research in 2011 in the UES stem cell lab, Dr. Crespo’s team had recently made a “breakthrough” discovery, according to one of the hospital’s staff;

“He was working late almost every night and seemed really excited.”He said he had made an amazing breakthrough.”

The hospital’s spokeswoman, Sarah Smith, told the New York Daily News:

“Weill Cornell Medicine is saddened by the death of our colleague Miguel Crespo, Ph.D.”

“We extend our deepest sympathies to his family and friends.”

Daily Mail reports: Away from the hospital, Crespo was a part-time photographer and graphic designer.

On his website, his mission statement reads: ‘Throughout my life, I have relentlessly strived to capture the beauty in things I always felt the world has yet to discover – windows, shadows, reflections, the magic in the velvety light that projects on our eyes,’ he wrote on his photo design website.

‘I have always been mesmerized by the compassion, the emotion, and the meaning somebody’s look can convey and inspire.’

One of his neighbors Xoey Lee, 38, told NYDN he did not appear seem ill and said: ‘He’s always polite. He always says, “Hi”.’


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bigpharma; cancer; cancerresearch; crespo; death; doctor; research
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See also: Doctor, 40, Researching Colon Cancer Found Dead In The Eighth Floor Bathroom Of A New York Medical Center

Investigators trying to piece together how Miguel Crespo, 40, came to his death

He died at the Weill Cornell Medical Center on the Upper East Side in New York

Police said they found vomit next to his body on an eighth floor bathroom

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5122037/Doctor-40-researching-colon-cancer-dead.html
1 posted on 11/29/2017 8:36:33 AM PST by Main Street
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To: Main Street

Maybe he really had a cure/treatment and some pharmaceutical firm decide that the cost of a hit was less than the cost of the cure.


2 posted on 11/29/2017 8:39:25 AM PST by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, Conservative by principle.)
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To: Main Street

Looks pretty young. < |:(~

3 posted on 11/29/2017 8:39:59 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Main Street

It’s a business. Billions spent every year on it. Can’t have someone come along and say that you can cure it with a $5 herb, now can you?


4 posted on 11/29/2017 8:40:27 AM PST by petercooper ("Democrats are on a collusion course with destiny in 2018." -- Bill Mitchell 5/26/17)
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To: Main Street

Wait for the autopsy


5 posted on 11/29/2017 8:40:38 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: MeganC

Too much money in treating it. Cure it and lots of money would be gone. You don’t mess with big pharma money. Just sayin’.


6 posted on 11/29/2017 8:41:17 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Main Street

Don’t ever cross Big Pharma by finding a cure of one of their biggest money making diseases.


7 posted on 11/29/2017 8:42:57 AM PST by drypowder
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To: petercooper

Agree to big to fail program never gives up.

Godfather: It’s a business


8 posted on 11/29/2017 8:44:14 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: rktman
Too much money in treating it.

Too much money in fundraising too. Hate to be that cynical but.......

9 posted on 11/29/2017 8:45:36 AM PST by Mopp4
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To: MeganC

Or maybe he lied about it and committed suicide rather than be embarrassed by the truth. Conspiracy theorizing can cut both ways.


10 posted on 11/29/2017 8:51:14 AM PST by Avalon Memories (The question about fighting back is not what average people can to do, but how to do we do it?)
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To: Nifster

“Wait for the autopsy”

Of all groups, Big Pharma can certainly come up with an undetectable poison. There’s always the old standbys like ricin, acetylcholine, curare, air bubble etc.


11 posted on 11/29/2017 8:51:26 AM PST by Bonemaker (White Southerners have been under attack since 1860.)
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To: Main Street

Never piss off people who make poisons for a living......................


12 posted on 11/29/2017 8:52:54 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Main Street
We'll know more if they can't find his lab notes or journals.

These guys are pretty anal about record keeping...

13 posted on 11/29/2017 8:53:25 AM PST by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: Main Street

Here’s a more likely scenario...

He discovered he didn’t really have a cure after all and lost it.


14 posted on 11/29/2017 8:54:28 AM PST by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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To: Nifster
Wait for the autopsy

In a case like this, I wouldn't trust the autopsy report.

15 posted on 11/29/2017 8:55:42 AM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: AlaskaErik

Oh sure thing because all medical examiners are corrupt


16 posted on 11/29/2017 8:57:55 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Avalon Memories
"Or maybe he lied about it and committed suicide rather than be embarrassed by the truth. Conspiracy theorizing can cut both ways."

Or maybe he had an opiate drug problem and accidentally overdosed. The vomiting in the bathroom is consistent with heroin overdose.

17 posted on 11/29/2017 8:58:10 AM PST by circlecity
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To: MeganC

I’ve read lately of people mysteriously dying who preach a natural approach and speak out against the big pharmas and the meds. that are prescribed.


18 posted on 11/29/2017 8:58:38 AM PST by hsmomx3
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To: Main Street; null and void; Eric Blair 2084

What did Big Pharma know, and when did they know it?


19 posted on 11/29/2017 8:59:48 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Women prefer men with money and muscles. DUH!)
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To: MeganC

Big Pharma don’t allow no cures. What would they do with all that useless expensive chemo they have laying around?


20 posted on 11/29/2017 9:00:37 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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