Second opinion changes diagnosis from incurable to curable cancer

Monday, May 12, 2014 - 18:31 in Health & Medicine

The case of a woman diagnosed with advanced, incurable lung cancer has been reported, whose disease was in fact early stage, curable lung cancer with additional lung lesions due to a rare antibiotic side effect. When her primary lung tumor was surgically removed, and the antibiotic stopped, the 62-year-old woman recovered and may now be cured.

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