RE: Biopsy errors

[Guest guest]

I had something similar happen to me in a

large and well-thought of US

institution. I had gone there from South Africa to get some scans done

and to speak to a world-class urologist, radiologist and oncologist. I took my

biopsy slides with me as they said they wanted to examine these. At that stage

I had reports of Gleason 3+3=6 and 2+3=5 (twice – from different

pathologists). The report from the US pathologist, a copy of which was

given to me with my slides was 3+4=7.

Some months later, when I was home again, I

opened the container in which the slides had been packed because I wanted some

further (ploidy) tests run. Oops, they weren’t my slides but had the name

of some other man on them. I contacted the US institution who asked me to mail

them back and promised to send mine to me, but they never arrived.

I always recommend that people should get

copies of all reports, get second opinions, do everything they can to ensure

that the data, uncertain as it is, I at least their own data. I’m not

sure from the news report that Darryl posted if that would have done much good

in the two cases, since it seems that both were mislabeled, but it might have

done.

All the best

Prostate men need enlightening, not

frightening

Terry Herbert - diagnosed in 1996 and

still going strong

Read A Strange Place for unbiased information at http://www.yananow.net/StrangePlace/index.html

From: ProstateCancerSupport [mailto:ProstateCancerSupport ] On Behalf Of darrylmit

Sent: Sunday, 8 August 2010 1:11

PM

To: ProstateCancerSupport

Subject:

Biopsy errors

Interesting article about biopsy errors.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/08/02/two_men_file_lawsuits_over_errors_in_prostate_biopsies/

Darryl