Suit: Because of hospital mix-up, I had surgery for cancer I never had

Rene Stutzman orlandosentinel.com A Winter Park woman filed a lawsuit Tuesday asking a judge to order Florida Hospital to surrender records documenting a lab mix-up that resulted in a false cancer diagnosis and the removal of a section of her rectum. In the suit, the woman is identified as Jane Doe. "I really thought I was dying for many months," she said in a phone interview. The mix-up happened in December, according to the suit, either at Florida Hospital Winter Park, where she had gone for a routine colon exam, or in a laboratory at Florida Hospital's main facility on Rollins Street in Orlando. Someone mislabeled her tissue sample from the routine colonoscopy, mixing it up with one taken from a man with rectal cancer, the suit alleges. to read more: orlandosentinel.com