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Interchanged Tube Is to Blame: Woman Amputates Breast, Even Though She Had No Cancer at All

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A DNA test reveals the error, which in 2018 cost a woman from Padua her breast. Now a court will clarify who is responsible for the fatal laboratory defect.

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Le ParisienLe Parisien
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"She Endured Severe Mental Suffering": Mistakenly Diagnosed with Cancer, an Italian Woman Asks for Reparation for Her Mastectomy

A woman underwent a breast cancer mastectomy in 2018. Seven years later, she realized that she had never been ill and is now seeking redress.

·Paris, France
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tz.detz.de
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Interchanged Tube Is to Blame: Woman Amputates Breast, Even Though She Had No Cancer at All

A DNA test reveals the error, which in 2018 cost a woman from Padua her breast. Now a court will clarify who is responsible for the fatal laboratory defect.

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La RepubblicaLa Repubblica
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Padua, They Swapped Test Tubes and Removed Her Breast but She Wasn't Sick

After seven years of ordeal between suffering and surgery, a DNA test revealed the error and now the patient asks for millionaire compensation

·Turin, Italy
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La Repubblica broke the news in Turin, Italy on Tuesday, April 28, 2026.
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