WAKE FOREST, N.C. — Two North Carolina women who say they were misdiagnosed with breast cancer have filed complaints against Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist.
They filed their grievances with the state health department.
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According to the law firm representing them, an unnamed 59-year-old grandmother was originally diagnosed with HER2-positive breast cancer in 2020. She went through 13 rounds of “debilitating” chemotherapy only to find out this May that she was misdiagnosed.
In the other case, a 27-year-old was diagnosed and underwent a hysterectomy and double mastectomy. She later found out those surgeries were unnecessary.
Channel 9 has reached out to Atrium for comment.
The law firm said it is working to determine how many HER2-positive misdiagnosis cases have happened since 2019.
“We have been contacted by several former patients who’ve been advised by Atrium Health they were misdiagnosed,” they said in a statement. “One instance of misdiagnosis is one too many; based on our inquiry to date, we fear there are many, many more.”
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