'Epidemiological Follow-up 15 Years After Presumably False Diagnoses of Breast Cancer' -A Statement by the German Senology Society

摘要

In 1996 a suspicion arose with regard to a group of patients in Essen diagnosed with breast cancer. It was suspected that a certain pathologist was making incorrect diagnoses, -that carcinomas were being diagnosed in cases where no oncological disease was present. When the findings of the pathologist under suspicion were rechecked, the diagnoses initially appeared plausible; however, DNA analysis showed that the pathologist in question had - clearly in an attempt at deliberate deception - presented false histological sections and tissue specimens.