Many women have been treated for the wrong breast during their radiation treatment. In question? High-tech devices no longer allow patients to know which breast is going to be irradiated, which experts call a “laterality error.”
At the release of Pink October, 20minutes reveals dark news at the start of November 2024. Several women have been victims of laterality errors. Medical jargon which means that the caregiver is on the wrong side when caring for his patient undergoing radiotherapy for breast cancer.
These major problems are linked to advances in treatment techniques, which are less and less visible on patients’ chests. While the disease is already very difficult to live with, these very rare events are an additional ordeal to go through for those who suffer from it.
25 sessions of radiotherapy in the wrong breast
These traumatic events should be noted in the plural as they have been repeated in recent years, warned the Nuclear Safety Authority. At the beginning of 2024, a woman received 20 sessions of radiotherapy in the wrong breast at the Burgundy Cancer Institute, in Dijon. At the end of 2023, the Tours hospital (Indre-et-Loire) realized its “laterality error” after the 25th radiation session in the wrong breast. More recently, in March 2024, it was at the greater Montpellier cancer center (Hérault) that a patient suffered from this reversal problem during treatment of the disease.
published on November 14 at 7:10 p.m., Teddy Perez, 6Medias
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