On a summer day in September a stunned Janecek, 61, received a call from her doctor with test results from her routine colonoscopy. The doctor had told her that she had intestinal cancer and she was in shock, because prior to that she had been successfully treated for intestinal cancer. She ended up having surgery and they removed about two feet of her small and large intestines. As time went on after the surgery she wasn't feeling right and was having severe to moderate pains she was beginning to wonder if they had gotten all the cancer. When she went back for her six-week checkup she was informed by her physician that there may have been a contamination with her specimen, and that she didn't have the cancer after all. The originating doctor questioned the lab work but they never found an error and so she ended up suing the hospital for their negligence and won, but to this day she still suffers from abdominal pains and other digestive problems.
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