A California couple is suing a fertility clinic for fraudulent concealment claiming they mistakenly transferred an embryo carrying a rare stomach cancer gene and then falsified patient records to cover up the error
Jason and Melissa Diaz claim their young son now faces the potential of stomach cancer or possible stomach surgery to avoid the rare cancer. They filed suit in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday against Huntington Reproductive Center Medical Group, also called HRC Fertility. The couple’s doctor and IVF coordinator are also named as defendants in the lawsuit. Melissa Diaz carries the BRCA1 genetic mutation making her prone to breast and ovarian cancer.
The lawsuit says Melissa later requested her full medical records from the office. “Recognizing its error, HRC Fertility then attempted to hide the truth. It produced to Melissa an altered copy of her records that omitted the crucial information of which embryo it transferred,” the lawsuit states. The lawsuit includes two versions of the embryo records and alleges “HRC attempted to hide the truth.
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