Failure to diagnose cancer often Malpractice

One of the most common types of cases seen in medical malpractice is the failure to diagnose cancer. Cancer is a group of over 100 different diseases and occurs when the cells are abnormal and divide, and the formation of cells without control. If cells divide when new cells are not needed, yet formed a mass of excess tissue, which is a tumor. Tumors can be), benign (non-cancer) or malignant (cancer. Cancer cells can invade nearby tissues or travel --through the bloodstream to form additional tumors elsewhere. The spread of cancer is called metastasis.

Some cancers are danger signals, such as unusual bleeding or discharge, change in bowel / bladder habits, a thickening or lump in one part of the body, indigestion / difficulty swallowing or an annoying cough / hoarseness. A biopsy is the only sure way to find out if there is cancer. During a biopsy, the doctor removes a piece of tissue and examination under aMicroscope to see if cancer cells are present. The cancer can be treated with surgery, hormone therapy, radiotherapy or chemotherapy.

There are several screening tests for early diagnosis of some forms of cancer used. Annual Pap tests and mammograms are tools that doctors use to detect cervical cancer and breast cancer. Sigmoidoscopy and colonoscopy are used to detect colon and rectum al.

Tumors can be missed if the screening tests are not adequatelymaintained or simply not be ordered. Some of the evidence, particularly mammography, might be misunderstood and interpreted by a radiologist, resulting in the spread of cancer. Biopsies can also be misunderstood, or biopsies, which can not properly sample of affected tissue in a diagnostic failed.

Since the ability to diagnose the cancer continues to improve, the failure of a physician for the diagnosis of cancer is becoming increasingly difficult to understand and accept. A patient has the chance of survivaldirectly, as the cancer is diagnosed early, will be connected, the failure of cancer at an early stage of diagnosis, the patient may request that the issue of treatment of cancer aggressive and painful than would otherwise be necessary. Certainly, if a patient has worsened the prognosis of cancer is not diagnosed at an early stage.

The following is a list of the most common cancers that doctors often diagnose:

· Cervical Cancer

· Cancer

· BreastCancer

· Prostate Cancer

· Esophageal cancer

Early treatment of these cancers are much less painful than following the procedures required as a result failed to diagnose PE. Often, chemotherapy and radiotherapy can be avoided if the cancer is detected early enough. If a doctor is not a cancer, pain and suffering and financial burden on patients for the diagnosis increases, this will be the responsibility of the doctor as he / she wasthose who missed the early diagnosis.