Cassandra Barksdale says a tissue sample mix-up led doctors to diagnose aggressive uterine cancer and remove her uterus, cervix, fallopian tubes and ovaries; months later, DNA testing showed the cancerous tissue belonged to another patient

Presentaron una demanda alegando que la confusión provocó la intervención quirúrgica y meses de sufrimiento físico y emocional

The frequency of pathology sample mislabeling or mix-ups during medical testing is not definitively known