Monica long was told she had the earliest stage of breast cancer, known as level 0 or Duktales carcinoma in situ (DCIS).  The new according to York Times, a pathologist had come to this conclusion after performing a biopsy.  Mrs long decided to full operation, only later have to find out that the pathologist had it wrong.  She never had breast cancer.

It is not breaking news.
In 2006 Susan G. Komen for the cure, a breast cancer survivor organization, published a study with alarming results.  According to the New York Times reports that the researchers in 90,000 cases, women who were diagnosed with DCIS or invasive breast cancer "not the disease or its pathologist have either an other error which caused incorrect treatment."

This 2006 study was not isolated. In the year 2002 doctors at Northwestern University Medical Center, saw the pathology of 340 patients with breast cancer and discovered that close to 8 percent of cases errors had.  These errors were significant enough to change the plans for the surgery.

The New York Times pathologist reported also on a San Francisco, 597 breast cancer cases from 2007 and 2008 checks found discrepancies in 141 of them.

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* Source: The New York Times, "error-prone: first steps to look for cancer"

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