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Freeport woman sues hospital after biopsy mix-up
Last April, Janelle Trenchfield was told she had breast cancer.
A biopsy at Winthrop-University Hospital in Mineola had confirmed the diagnosis, and so in June, the anguished Freeport woman had surgery to remove a lump and lymph nodes - only to find out days later that she hadn't had cancer at all.
The biopsy results, she learned, had been mixed up. A label with her name had been put...
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