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Hundreds of Thousands of people each year get cancer.  Everyone knows that.  A certain small percentage of those cancer cases are also malpractice cases.  Why?

If you have an x-ray and that x-ray shows a suspicious spot, then you should get that worked up and determine if that spot is lung cancer.  If that workup is not done and it develops into untreatable lung cancer then the fact that there was a delay in telling you and treating the cancer can mean that there is a medical malpractice case there.  That's lung cancer, we also see this is a few other types of cancer.  Namely:

• Cervical Cancer (Where the misdiagnosis is the misreading of a pap smear)
• Colon Cancer (Misdiagnosis from not testing or misreading the tests)
• Breast Cancer (Misdiagnosis from misreading the mammogram)
• Prostate Cancer (Misdiagnosis from failure to test or misreading results of the testing)

These are a few examples where misdiagnosis of cancer leads to medical negligence claims.  I have a post on another blog with some more information if you are interested.  Other post