Woman Receives Radiation and Chemotherapy for Cancer She Did Not Have
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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.