A private mutual has compensated with 140,000 euros to a woman for the delay in the diagnosis of breast cancer, after an agreement between the parties. The patient presented episodes of hemorrhagic discharge through the nipple during February 2016, when she was pregnant, and informed her gynecologist. The specialists did not do a mammogram, assuring that it could pose a risk to the fetus. A year later, she was diagnosed with infiltrating carcinoma of the breast. This delay in diagnosis has led to a more radical treatment and the extension of the disease to metastasis, as reported by the Patient Advocatean association to which the plaintiff’s lawyer is a member.
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This association has recalled that there is repeated scientific literature that defends that a fetus can tolerate the small amount of radiation emitted in a mammography, without this entailing any risk.
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He adds that the woman had an important family oncological history, as well as a repeated clinic of hemorrhages through the nipples. Therefore, she argues that evidence should not have been spared necessary, nor postpone them because she was pregnant or, later, breastfeeding her child. She argues that the priority was to make a early diagnostic or, at least, warn the patient of the risks she ran if it was not done.
The Defender also explains that when decided to perform a biopsy The woman was informed that the material obtained was insufficient for diagnosis, however, the test was interpreted as a negative result for malignant cells.