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Woodstock Business Owner Received Chemo Underdosage

Friday, 5 April 2013 10:55

"I am taking legal action. Money can't buy life, but somebody shouldn't have played Russian Roulette with my life." That was the reaction of Tracey Kaiman, owner of Eden Bella Boutique in downtown Woodstock after she received a registered letter from the London Health Sciences Centre on Thursday. Kaiman was diagnosed with breast cancer in June 2012 and began her ten rounds of chemotherapy in August. Just a few months after her last treatment and double mastectomy, she was informed that she was one of 990 cancer patients in Ontario who received watered down chemotherapy. "My mother contacted me at work and she said you have a registered letter from the London Health Science. I said to her just open it, I thought it was my genetics testing. Then she called me back and she was crying and said, 'oh Tracey I am so sorry' so right away I thought okay, I'm dying or I have cancer again or something. But when she told me what it was I really thought that they could have contacted me personally." According to Kaiman, she received an 18 page letter and was informed that those affected were asked to attend a meeting in London on Tuesday and Wednesday. She said she made an appointment to visit her oncologist as well. Kaiman first heard of the underdosing just prior to receiving her letter. "That morning I heard it getting my hair done. I didn't let it cross my mind, I was afraid to be honest with you. So I just let the news go through one ear and out the other." In Kaiman's case, she can not receive further chemotherapy treatments and says at this time "it is all in God's hands".

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