Man Undergoes Mastectomy, Wrongly Diagnosed With Cancer
A 28-year-old man alleges in a lawsuit against a hospital in Nyack city in the State of New York, he underwent a mastectomy as a result of a misdiagnosis of cancer.
Personal trainer Scott Aprile alleges in his suit against Nyack Hospital that after he had his right breast removed as a precaution, he was told by Dr. Lawrence Simon his cancer diagnosis was the result of a biopsy mix-up, the New York Daily News said Thursday.
Surgeons removed his entire right breast and three lymph nodes, leaving a 6-inch scar that extends from his underarm to his sternum, writes NY Daily News.
"My first thought was, 'Oh, my God, I don't have cancer,'" Aprile said of the Feb. 5 medical revelation.
"No. 2 was, 'You've got to be kidding me.'"
"When I saw the stitches and my mangled chest, I almost passed out for the first time in my life," he added regarding the results of his surgery. "They mutilated my body."
Nyack Hospital said in a statement it regretted that Aprile was misdiagnosed with cancer when his biopsy sample accidentally wast switched with that of another patient.
The Daily News said the hospital also said Aprile's allegations in his lawsuit, which is seeking unspecified damages, are inaccurate.
It all started last year when Scott Aprile, of Rockland County, felt a growth in his right breast. According to the lawsuit, Dr. Lawrence Simon performed a biopsy and sent samples to be analyzed by the hospital's pathology department and two doctors, Paul Walker and Kiran Rijhwani.
Doctor's then phoned Aprile in December with the devastating news that he had breast cancer. As a result, Aprile was forced to undergo a mastectomy in January, in which doctors removed his entire right breast and three lymph nodes.
Aprile was in for another shock about two weeks later, when Simon apparently called him to say he never had cancer at all. During the conversation, Simon apparently told Aprile his biopsy results had been switched with that of a woman who had tests conducted the same day, according to the suit.
For its part, Nyack Hospital said in a statement it, "regrets the circumstances which led to the misidentification of Mr. Aprile's condition and has put procedures in place to prevent such an occurrence in the future." The statement also goes on to say Aprile's allegations are "inflammatory and factually inaccurate.
But as for Aprile, who quit his job as a personal trainer at New York Sports Club, life will never be the same.
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