A woman has died of breast cancer after her doctor told her a lump was benign
A woman has died of breast cancer after her doctor told her a lump was benign
29 July 2019
A Health and Disability Commissioner report says the doctor wrongly concluded the lump was the same cyst cleared in a mammogram six months earlier.
The Commissioner says the woman should have been sent for further imaging.
The patient returned five months later and another doctor urgently referred her to a specialist... where she was diagnosed with Stage 3 cancer and subsequently died.
The Commissioner has recommended the GP apologise to the patient's family, and make changes to their practice.
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