Lebow Released From Hospital After Tests Show No Cancer

Fred Lebow, the race director of the New York City Marathon, was released late Friday night from Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, where he had been undergoing tests for a growth on his brain.

Lebow, 52, had a biopsy last Monday and Friday was given the news that the growth was not cancerous.

Doctors would say only that it was an inflammation.

“It’s a great relief that it’s not cancer,” Lebow said from his home in Manhattan. “They don’t know exactly what it is, and that’s upsetting.”

Lebow said the results of still more tests were expected next week, but that he was given permission to go home.

“I’m still weak, and they have me on 18 to 20 pills a day,” he said. “They also won’t allow me to exercise.”

Lebow had been jogging on the hospital roof during much of the two weeks of his hospitalization.