Scars left behind by pathology errors at Providence [Video]

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) – On February 20, Jessica Vickers got a call out of the blue that would change her life.

“My primary care doctor called me almost in tears,” she said. “I need to tell you that your pathology results that you got done last year are wrong and that you have some form of cancer.”

A biopsy from a year earlier had been read incorrectly, and Vickers had wrongly been told that she was cancer-free.

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She got set up with an oncologist and together they decided that the best course of action would be a double mastectomy. Vickers says that if it wasn’t for the pathology error, and resulting year of delayed treatment, she wouldn’t have had to take such a severe course of action.

“I probably wouldn’t have had to do the bilateral mastectomy or wouldn’t have …