Doctors told my sister she had breast cancer after a mammogram. She had a double mastectomy per their recommendation. Test results came back negative for cancer after the surgery. If any doctor tells me I have cancer, a second or third opinion will be had.
They make mistakes, costly ones. I’m not sure how this happened. Don’t they do further testing before surgery? No “Oops, my bad” for me.
I STRONGLY recommend multiple consultations. I went to several oncologists.
I also STRONGLY recommend second or third opinions on the pathology report. I can’t remember which celebrity had cancer but the first report missed it. I think it might have been Tom Hanks wife.
They found a tumor in the left calf of my sister-in-law two years ago. They operated, and found they had to dig deeper as the tumor was more deeply rooted than they thought. After she got home, the wound was leaking so badly that they had to send a nurse with a pump, to take all the crap out. She had to do it so many times a day, and this went on for weeks.
They had done a biopsy at the time of the surgery, but she wasn't told until months later that they found cancer cells, so she had to go through a series of radiation treatments on the leg. At some point they grafted tissue from her groin area to replace what they'd had to remove during the surgery. And after a year, the wound still hadn't healed. She even went to a wound clinic, and they told her to put gauze pads, and keep it wrapped up with elastic sport bands. It wasn't until she was hospitalized for another issue over a year later, that the doctors there took scans of the whole leg, and found a spot of cellulitis in her left thigh that was likely contributing to the wound not healing. They put her on an antibiotic, which is what she should have likely been on from the time of the surgery, and the wound finally healed properly. They do still have to keep an eye on the thigh, to make sure the cellulitis doesn't come back, but at least she doesn't have a constantly weeping wound to contend with.