A Broken Hill man was wrongly diagnosed with lung cancer and underwent major surgery in Adelaide after a tiny fragment of someone else’s cancerous tissue contaminated his own sample, an inquest has been told. 7NEWS
after a tiny fragment of someone else’s cancerous tissue contaminated his own sample, an inquest has been told.
Further testing was done and a technician reported locating a free-floating fragment of squamous cell carcinoma - a form of lung cancer. Dennis Jackson had part of his lung removed after being given a cancer diagnosis which was later found to be wrong.But she said after sections of Jackson’s lung were removed, specimens sent to SA Pathology found no evidence of malignancy.
“For my uncle it was like going to hospital and getting hit by a train, then leaving hospital and then getting hit by another train,” Willams said.About a month after the surgery Jackson returned to hospital where a diagnosis of hospital-acquired pneumonia was made.7NEWS
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