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Ohio Cancer Misdiagnosis Case Alleges MRI Of Wrong Knee

August 5, 2014

An Ohio woman filed a medical malpractice case during July 2014 in which she alleges that the negligence of two treating physicians in failing to timely diagnose a cancerous tumor in her left knee for a period of seven months in 2010 led to her chances of survival decreasing from 70% (when[...]

$11.7M Boston Medical Malpractice Verdict For Misdiagnosed Lung Cancer

July 11, 2014

In June 2014, a Boston medical malpractice jury found in favor of a Boston woman whose lung cancer was allegedly misdiagnosed (undiagnosed) by a hospital radiologist, leading to the insidious spread of the cancer throughout her body and her painful death in August 2008 at the age of 47, leaving behi[...]

New Mexico Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed For Indian Activist’s Death

July 4, 2014

The surviving wife of an Indian activist who died in 2012 at the age of 72, allegedly as a result of the negligent failure to diagnose his esophageal cancer in 2012, has filed a New Mexico medical malpractice case in state court against the hospital where the alleged cancer misdiagnosis (failure to [...]

$1.9M Massachusetts Medical Malpractice Verdict For Unnecessary Cancer Treatment

March 21, 2014

On March 11, 2014, a Worchester, Massachusetts medical malpractice jury found in favor of the estate of a man who was told in 2003 that he had non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after which he twice underwent chemotherapy and later had a stem cell transplant. The medical malpractice jury’s verdic[...]

Mississippi Appeals Court Upholds Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict

February 15, 2013

By its decision filed on February 5, 2013, the Court of Appeals of the State of Mississippi (“Appeals Court”) upheld a defense verdict in a medical malpractice case. The Mississippi medical malpractice jury decided the case in favor of the plaintiff’s physician on October 13, 2010[...]

Medical Malpractice Claim In UK For Cervical Cancer Misdiagnosed 30 Times

October 13, 2012

A 33-year-old mother of four minor children died from cervical cancer in July, 2012 after her doctors and other medical providers in England failed on 30 occasions to diagnose her cervical cancer. The woman’s ordeal began in 2010 when pre-cancerous cells were removed from her cervix. In Ja[...]

Nevada Medical Malpractice Verdict For Cancer Death of 27-Year-Old Mother

December 15, 2011

In one of the largest medical malpractice jury verdicts in Nevada during 2009, a young mother who had been complaining to her doctor for seven months that she had blood in her stools and abdominal pain beginning in 2004, died a painful death from colon and rectal cancer because her doctor misdiag[...]

News Regarding Early-Stage Prostate Cancer Treatment

July 23, 2011

For early stage prostate cancer in men with intermediate risk, a large clinical trial has found that combining short term hormone therapy with radiation therapy was more effective than radiation alone. The prostate is a walnut-sized gland found only in men that surrounds the urethra. The prostate�[...]

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