KTPH breast cancer misdiagnosis
Patients have mixed feelings over incident
Some patients yet to be contacted as process continues
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The hospital said it has contacted more than three-quarters of the 200 or so breast cancer patients who were wrongly diagnosed.
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A year after she was informed she had a rare breast cancer, accounts clerk Stella Seah was told she may have been wrongly diagnosed with a more aggressive form of the disease. By then, the 46-year-old had received 17 rounds of trastuzumab, a drug which can cause diarrhoea, chills and fever. In about 3 to 4 per cent of cases, patients may also experience heart problems.
"I broke down in tears as I had been suffering unnecessary pain from the medication," she said of the call she received on Dec 1 last year from Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (KTPH).
