Late and/or Misdiagnoses Cancer Claims

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Cancer Claims

Receiving a diagnosis that you, a family member or a friend has cancer is devastating. It is understandably a very difficult time and it is important to have support from friends and family. When a person is diagnosed with cancer, their clinician will tell them at what stage their cancer has reached. Often when opportunities for diagnosis are missed and the condition has developed to a more advanced stage, the delay will have made a difference to the outcome. Sometimes the effect is extremely serious.

Our specialist Medical Negligence Solicitors have won compensation for many people who had a delayed diagnosis of cancer because:

• X-rays and scans were misinterpreted
• Tissue samples and smears were wrongly interpreted by pathologists
• Adequate investigation was not carried out.

Compensation

Substantial compensation has been won in claims for medical negligence arising from the delayed diagnosis of:

• Melanoma (skin cancer)
• Lung cancer
• Bowel cancer
• Cervical cancer
• Breast cancer
• Lymphoma (cancer of the lymph)
• Carcinoma
• Adenocarcinoma

Other problems arise when patients are misdiagnosed with cancer. Some people have undergone unnecessary medical procedures, and others have developed a severe psychological reaction to the belief that they are terminally ill.