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. Thus, 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. 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; these doctors either do not listen to the patient’s complaints, do not take them seriously, or 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 in fact 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 has 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. We have attorneys trained in handling doctors' failure to diagnose cancer, and who 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.

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