People today are fortunate to have access to innovative advances in medication and medical technology. Although a cancer diagnosis is still terrifying and life-altering, you can often take advantage of treatments that can alleviate your symptoms, extend your life, or even cure your cancer. However, many of these treatments are only successful if you receive a timely and accurate diagnosis. A diagnostic delay or mistake could allow the disease to progress and prevent you from benefitting from lifesaving treatments.
If you suspect your healthcare provider failed to make a timely diagnosis, our Fort Washington failed cancer diagnosis lawyers are ready to help you with a legal claim. Our medical negligence attorneys can investigate the incident and determine if you have the right to seek justice in a lawsuit.
What Are the Potential Impacts of a Failed Cancer Diagnosis?
Cancer can progress aggressively and rapidly. If caught early through proper testing and screening, you have a considerably higher chance of surviving and returning to your normal way of life. Early intervention treatments can often be less aggressive and more localized.
When there is a failed diagnosis, your cancer could progress and spread, which could lead to irreversible damage to your body. Cancer that has advanced might not respond to some forms of medical treatment. Any delay in diagnosing cancer could force you to have to undergo more invasive treatments over a wider area of your body, which can be more painful and have debilitating side effects. Delayed treatments can also lead to a shorter life expectancy.
Our attorneys can meet with you and your family in Fort Washington to discuss the full impact that the failed, missed, or delayed cancer diagnosis has had on your quality of life. We work closely with medical experts, lifestyle experts, and actuaries to understand your future prognosis and fight for a reasonable settlement or verdict.
How To Prove That a Failed Cancer Diagnosis Was Malpractice
Doctors are not perfect and can make mistakes, but not all of those medical errors rise to the level of actionable medical malpractice. You must establish that your healthcare provider should have been able to diagnose your cancer based on your symptoms, by showing that another doctor with similar medical training could have made a timely and accurate cancer diagnosis in a similar situation. You must also prove that you experienced losses because of the failed cancer diagnosis.
Our Fort Washington attorneys can investigate whether your doctor ignored symptoms, failed to perform a necessary medical evaluation, did not order the appropriate diagnostic tests, or made another type of critical error in their cancer diagnosis.
We can also work with medical experts to prove that early diagnosis would have made early intervention possible, which could have slowed the progression of your cancer and improved your life.
Contact Our Fort Washington Attorneys After a Failure to Diagnose Your Cancer
Cancer patients can benefit greatly from early and aggressive treatments. If your doctor failed to identify your condition, they may have prevented you from benefitting from those early treatments. Contact us today to schedule a consultation with one of our Fort Washington lawyers who knows how to handle a claim for failed cancer diagnosis. Friedman Schuman Layser is here and willing to fight for you after these unacceptable errors.