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Woman Receives Radiation and Chemotherapy for Cancer She Did Not Have

By Ben Glass

A woman from Poca, West Virginia has filed a medical malpractice suit against a pathologist after allegedly receiving radiation and chemotherapy for cancer she did not have.

On August 26, Charlotte Mollohan filed suit against Charleston Area Medical Center and Ho-Huang Chang, the medical director of CAMC Laboratories and director of anatomic pathology, in the Circuit Court of Kanawha County, West Virginia. Michael Mollohan, her husband, has also been named as a plaintiff.

The suit claims that after receiving radiation and chemotherapy treatments for a period of six weeks to treat small cell lung cancer, a diagnosis that is often fatal, Mollohan developed a shrunken esophagus.

However, the cancer Mollohan was receiving treatment for was later discovered to be a small tumor in her long. She is now required to undergo a procedure every five weeks to stretch her esophagus enough for her to be able to eat. The procedure involves a plastic ball being inserted into her throat and expanded in order to stretch the esophagus.

The suit alleges that Mollohan was hospitalized for neutropenia, an abnormally small number of neutrophil cells in the blood, and anemia in addition to developing chemically induced numbness and tingling, all of which require ongoing treatment.

Originally posted at InjuryBoard by Ben Glass

Full post as published by Northern Virginia Personal Injury Lawyer on September 16, 2008 (boomark / email).