After receiving chemotherapy for almost ten years, a man discovered that his disease had been misdiagnosed.
Dr. Thomas C. Weiner, a former oncologist at St. Peter’s Health, Helena, Montana’s sole adult acute care hospital, diagnosed Anthony Olson with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) in 2011.
MDS is defined as “a group of cancers in which immature blood cells in the bone marrow do not mature or become healthy blood cells” by the National Cancer Institute.
Weiner informed Olson, who was 33 at the time of the heartbreaking diagnosis, that he would “be dead before the end of the year”
If he did not begin treatment. According to Olson, 47, “that diagnosis changed the direction of my life,” she told ProPublica.
