Medical News Summary: Woman dies after she was told she was too young to have breast cancer

About: Woman dies after she was told she was too young to have breast cancer
Date: 20 September 2004
Source: Mirror
Author: Andy Lines
Medical News Summary (summary of medical news story as reported by Mirror): A 28 year old woman went to doctors with a lump in her breast but was told she was too young to have breast cancer. She was told it was a hormonal lump. She was referred to a breast-screening clinic where she was told it was a cyst. Eventually breast cancer was confirmed. The woman requested a mastectomy but was offered chemo instead. Chemo failed so she underwent a mastectomy but died not long after. The woman started legal action against the hospital as soon as she was diagnosed with cancer.
URL: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/tm_objectid=14661831&method=full&siteid=50143&headline=docs-failed-to-spot-the-cancer-that-killed-tanya----now-she-s-fighting-for-justice-from-the-grave-name_page.html
Related Disease Topics: Breast cancer, Hormonal lump, Cyst
Related Symptom Topics: Breast lump

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Related Medical News Channels: This medical news summary article refers to the following medical channel categories:

• Misdiagnosis (type of Medical misadventure)
• misdiagnosis of breast cancer
• Misdiagnosis of hormonal lump
• misdiagnosis of cyst
• misdiagnosis of cancer
• misdiagnosis of breast lump
• Malpractice
• malpractice and breast cancer
• malpractice and cancer
• malpractice and breast lump
• Malpractice and hormonal lump
• malpractice and cyst
• Malpractice and lump breast

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