A woman from Malaysia got a settlement price of a 100,000 ringgit (equivalent to 31,250 dollars) post an operation wherein the doctor concerned got her left breast removed after having made an erroneous diagnosis that she was suffering from breast cancer. The incident was reported in a local newspaper on Monday.

The woman in question, T Silvarany, who is 56 years old, had gone for treatment for a stomach sickness back in 2005 to a government hospital in the northern part of the Ipoh city. This place is about 200 kilometres from the north of Kuala Lumpur.

The doctors had seen a lump in the left breast of Silvarany and had conducted a biopsy consequently. Later they had told her that the lump was cancerous in nature.

Once the operation was conducted which removed her left breast, the mother of two was told that the whole thing was in fact a mistake, and that the lump was not at all cancerous.

Post this incident, Silvarany filed a 2-million-ringgit (625,000 dollars) lawsuit in 2008 against the government, the health ministry, the hospital as well as the doctor who had operated her. All the parties concluded an outside-court settlement on Monday.