Failure to Diagnose Cancer in Bronx, New York

Did your doctor fail to order or perform follow-up tests after signs of cancer were clearly present during an office visit? If your doctor failed to order follow-up tests and you had a PSA higher than four, or you had a digital exam or a pap that was abnormal and your doctor failed to perform more tests, he or she could be held liable for failing to diagnose cancer.

Although there is still no cure for cancer, breakthroughs in medical science have made many types of cancer treatable, but only if they are caught early.

Early detection of cancer is the key to survival. The treatment of cases of breast cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer, ovarian cancer, cervical cancer, testicular cancer, kidney cancer and rectal cancer have recently had very high success rates when detected early. Unfortunately, not all doctors properly diagnose cancer.

Approximately 12% of all cancer cases are initially misdiagnosed and mistakes such as these made by members of the medical community lead to approximately 100,000 deaths each year.

There are many different reasons why doctors do not detect cancer, even when the signs are clearly there. Sometimes doctors fail to order proper tests, fail to read tests correctly, or fail to order follow-up tests because they either do not listen to the patients complaints, do not take them seriously or they attribute the symptoms to other diseases.

In addition to not detecting cancer, many times doctors simply misdiagnose the stage of cancer or do not treat it aggressively enough. There have even been cases where doctors have diagnosed patients with cancerous tumors, when infact there were none, leading to unnecessary treatment and medical bills.

Allowing cancer to progress greatly reduces a patient’s chances of successful treatment and therefore negatively affects his or her chances of survival. Aside from severely decreasing the chances of surviving cancer, allowing the cancer to progress untreated creates other problems. The longer cancer goes untreated, the methods of medical treatment must become more aggressive which in turn increases the harmful side effects of common treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation. Even if the patient survives, the treatments can have lasting side-effects. More treatment also generates more expensive medical bills for the patient.

If you or someone you know have been the victim of a doctor failing to diagnose cancer or misdiagnosing your cancer, please call us now. Located in Manhattan, we have attorneys and nurses who are trained to deal with cases where doctors have failed to diagnose cancer. Our failure to diagnose cancer attorneys, trained in handling doctors' failure to diagnose cancer, have helped many of our clients get the compensation they deserve. Whether that compensation is used to pay overdue medical bills, the cost of future medical bills, lost income or for pain and suffering, we will ensure that you get the help you deserve.

Please call us now. Our failure to diagnose cancer attorneys and nurses are waiting for the chance to help you.

Representative Cases

$26.2 million verdict in an automobile accident case for the death of a husband and father of three children and for serious injuries suffered by his wife.

$21 Million verdict for three children who suffered lead poisoning due to the presence of lead - based paint in their Bronx apartment.

$19.6 Million Dollars verdict in a medical malpractice action where a surgeon failed to properly monitor a female patient following gynecological surgery, resulting in brain damage and visual impairment.

$11 million settlement against a New York City hospital and obstetrician for failing to properly manage the pre-natal, birth and neonatal periods, resulting in brain damage and cerebral palsy; immediately following his birth, the infant involved in this case developed hypoglycemia (low blood sugar), which was not timely diagnosed nor treated, causing bleeding in his brain with seizures, brain damage and cerebral palsy.

$6.6 Million Dollar verdict in the Court of Claims for a student at Brooklyn College who sustained 2nd and 3rd degree thermal burns over 22% of his body when the clothing he was wearing caught fire while he was using a welding torch during a independent study class.

$4.4 million Dollar settlement for a 32 year old male whose leg was amputated below the knee after being run over by a forklift.

$3.125 Million Dollar settlement against a New York City hospital for failing to properly monitor a 5 month old baby who was being treated for burns sustained from excessively hot water in his apartment; due to the failure to monitor his condition, the baby became dehydrated and suffered multiple organ failure; he now has a very limited life expectancy.

$2.9 Million Dollar verdict in Supreme Court, New York County for a 27 year old male worker who was injured while working on a defective elevator, resulting in a crush injury to his heel.

$2.6 million settlement with an anticipated total payment of more than $3.75 million in a car accident lawsuit for a young woman who suffered a broken leg and required surgery

$2.5 Million Dollar settlement in a medical malpractice action for a 25 year old male whose leg was amputated above the knee when his doctor failed to timely diagnose post-operative complications after undergoing calf implant surgery.

$2.5 Million Dollar settlement reached during the trial of a medical malpractice case in Supreme Court, Rockland County for a male who suffered a fracture of his cribriform plate, a bone located in the head just below the brain, due to an improperly performed deviated nasal septum surgery.

$2.26 Million verdict in Supreme Court, Bronx County in a lawsuit for a construction worker who fell off a scaffold and suffered a broken right leg and right elbow with surgery.

$2.2 Million Dollar settlement in a medical malpractice case for a child who suffered brain damage due to the hospital's failure to timely diagnose and treat the infant's medical condition.

$2.0 Million Dollar settlement for a medical technician who was accidentally stuck by an improperly disposed of needle that had previously been used on an HIV positive patient; although this medical technician never developed the HIV virus, he suffered an allergic reaction called Stevens Johnson Syndrome to the medication he was required to take to prevent the development of the HIV/AIDS virus ultimately causing him to become legally blind.

$2.0 Million Dollar verdict in Supreme Court, Kings County for a 28 year old female who was injured as a front seat passenger in a motor vehicle accident resulting in brain damage and multiple facial lacerations.

$1.975 Million Dollar settlement for two children who sustained lead poisoning in a City apartment.

$1.9 Million Dollar settlement for the wrongful death of a 9 year old girl who received a blood transfusion in 1984 which was contaminated with the HIV virus-before blood testing for the HIV virus became available.

$1.85 Million Dollar settlement in a medical malpractice case for the failure to timely diagnose breast cancer.

$1.2 Million Dollar verdict in an automobile accident for a pedestrian crossing a major roadway and was struck by a motor vehicle.

$810,000 settlement for 8 year old boy who fell out of a 3rd floor window. No window guards were installed as required by law.

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