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Breast Cancer Tests and Patients

by Gloria Gamat on January 21st, 2008

What if you submitted yourself to various cancer tests and you are asked to undergo the same thing again because the hospital screwed up the samples?

I bet you’ll be angry! I will be too.

Like what this woman experienced n in a Welsh hospital.

Deborah Martin, 43, has been told three separate biopsies for breast and stomach cancer have to be reviewed.

Wrexham Maelor hospital is examining 4,500 cases, after it emerged that 12 patients were given inaccurate findings to tests.

The errors related to tissue samples “reported on” by pathologist Roger Williams over an 18 month period.

Read the full story from BBC News.

POSTED IN: cancer story, on breast cancer, on cancer diagnostics

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