A: Every day, we rely on doctors to know more than we do. Never is this more important than when we go in for a cancer screening-when we are told we are cancer-free, we will believe the diagnosis and go about our lives.
This is why a West Palm Beach Cancer Misdiagnosis is a particularly harmful form of medical malpractice. A patient’s chances of survival are severely reduced as the stages of cancer progress. For example, a patient being treated for late-stage cancer has 80% less chance of survival than a patient whose cancer was detected early.
Doctors may be held liable if they have:
- Demonstrated a poor standard of care
- Misread or misinterpreted test results
- Failed to biopsy, aspirate or test a suspicious lump to rule out a breast cancer diagnosis
- Declined to order hospital scans or further testing because it was “unnecessary” or “expensive”
