While cancer diagnostic testing has improved, failure to diagnose or misdiagnosis of cancer is still common. Cancer remains one of the top causes of death globally.
The most common cancers include bladder cancer, prostate cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer and pancreatic cancer.
A lot of medical negligence cases against medical professionals and hospitals relate to failure to diagnose cancer.
Cancer can be treated and cured if it is diagnosed in its earliest stages. If your doctor has performed comprehensive diagnostic testing, cancer should normally be diagnosed without much difficulty.
Wrong diagnosis of cancer may be due to the fact that some cancers are very rare therefore are unlikely to be correctly diagnosed.
A misdiagnosis of cancer may have resulted in painful treatment such as chemotherapy being administered on you or radiation therapy or even surgery. This was obviously unnecessary treatment.
We have had cases where doctors misdiagnosed cancer, by for example interpreting the symptoms as abdominal pain when in fact it was a serious cancer condition which resulted in a reduction in our client’s survival chances.
Misdiagnosis of cancer can result from inadequate testing techniques or misinterpretation of the results.
Cancer is often undetected because it usually has few if any symptoms in its early stages and failure to diagnose it in a timely manner can have great consequences on treatment effectiveness and your survival chances.
If your doctor failed to or misdiagnosed your cancer resulting in a reduction in your chances of recovery or exposing you to unnecessary painful treatment, you may be entitled to medical negligence compensation.
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