Philadelphia Medical Malpractice Attorneys
Failure to Diagnose Cancer
Modern medicine has made great advances which have enabled doctors to more easily diagnose cancer (breast cancer, colon cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, bone cancer, and skin cancer), heart disease, appendicitis, and other diseases and conditions. The survival rate and the number of successful treatments for cancer and other serious diseases keep increasing. Despite this medical progress, some doctors still fail to diagnose cancer and other conditions in a timely manner, or negligently misdiagnose cancer. As a result, patients are harmed and their prognosis suffers when their cancer isn't detected at an early stage.
If you were harmed by a doctor's failure to diagnose cancer or other disease, contact us at 610-525-0300 for a free consultation with a compassionate and experienced medical malpractice lawyer.
Helping Injured People for Over 35 Years
TheLaw Offices of Robert E. Slota has the experience and resources to fight powerful insurance companies, negligent doctors, radiologists, lab technicians, and other medical providers, for fair compensation in medical malpractice actions, including cases involving the failure to diagnose cancer or other disease. Our personal injury attorneys have successfully represented injury victims and their families in Philadelphia and throughout eastern Pennsylvania for over 35 years.
A doctor, or medical provider may be held liable if he or she does not take the proper steps to determine the nature and extent of a problem or ignores a patient's report of symptoms, and the patient is harmed by the delay in diagnosis. Cancers can be missed because early detection tests and screenings are not ordered or are improperly administered, including:
- Failure to order a biopsy
- Failure to order a pap smear
- Failure to order a mammogram
- Failure to order a colonoscopy
- Failure to order x-rays, CT or CAT scans or MRI's
- Ignoring symptoms such as rectal bleeding, a lump in a breast, or abnormal pap smear
- Incorrect readings or misinterpretation of x-rays, mammograms, or lab reports
- Negligence in performing diagnostic tests
- Failure to refer to a specialist
- Failure to treat cancer
If you or someone you know has cancer that you believe could have or should have been diagnosed earlier, contact our Bryn Mawr office at 610-525-0300 to schedule a free consultation to discuss the merits of medical malpractice claim. It costs nothing to meet with our experienced personal injury attorneys.
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Law Offices of Robert E. Slota
801 Old Lancaster Road
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
Phone: 610-525-0300
Fax: 610-525-9678
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