Marne. Her test results are reversed with those of another patient, and her uterus is mistakenly removed.

"I find it so enormous. Impossible. And yet, it happened to me." Interviewed by the newspaper L'Union , this woman from Reims is still struggling to come to terms with what happened to her. After being diagnosed with cancer and undergoing a hysterectomy, i.e. the removal of the uterus, this forty-year-old says she discovered, six months later, that she had never been ill.

In June 2022, the woman went to her regular gynecologist, who prescribed a biopsy. Her replacement sent the sample to a laboratory for analysis. The patient then learned that she had uterine cancer. "For me, there was no future. I only thought about my four children, I wondered how they would live without me," she told L'Union . The hysterectomy took place a few weeks later.

In January 2023, her gynecologist called her in. "She told me I'd never had cancer," says the Reims resident, who learned at that time that the lab that analyzed her biopsy had mixed up the results for two patients.

Emmanuel Ludot, a lawyer at the Reims (Marne) bar, took up the case and asserted that "the truth was covered up."

"The gynecologist who operated on my client should have realized that there was a problem between the results of the tests and those of the MRI, which in reality revealed nothing suspicious. No further verification was carried out," denounces the lawyer, who believes that the error was covered up. On March 12, the lawyer therefore took the replacement gynecologist and the laboratory to court. A medical examination is to be carried out in the coming weeks to provide more evidence in this case.

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