‘Absolutely unimaginable’: N.S. woman says she was falsely diagnosed with cancer – CTV
June 09, 2025
Gabriella Patey says she and her family are traumatized after she was falsely diagnosed with cancer by a Halifax hospital.
The 31-year-old claims it all started on May 17, when she says she had just finished celebrating after her doctor informed her that results from the IWK, a women’s health centre, showed a tumour in her breast was “completely benign.”
“We celebrated as my mother had just died of the same cancer a year-and-a-half prior. So, it was a huge relief,” says Patey.
But the celebration was short-lived, as Patey says she received a shocking call from her doctor less than a month later.
“I get a call from my primary care physician that the IWK had made a mistake, and I actually did have metastatic carcinoma, which is a very grim diagnosis,” says Patey.
Just as quickly as she got that call, Patey says she went into “survival mode” and began making calls of her own.
“I told my friends, my family, my work,” says Patey. “I put claims in through my bank so my bills would be taken care of. And I got my primary physician that put my name on the list for medically assisted dying.
