A person not properly diagnosed as having cancer can claim in a lawsuit that the doctor or health care provider failed to diagnose cancer. This is a relatively new area of medical malpractice law that is usually associated with a failure to diagnose lung cancer.
Failure to diagnose lung cancer can include the following types of claims:
A doctor did not prescribe tests to diagnose cancer when a patient's background and symptoms show that cancer may be a possibility; or
A doctor misinterprets an x-ray or other diagnostic test; or
A doctor did not prescribe additional, more specific diagnostic tests, such as CT Scans or MRIs, when x-rays indicated the possibility of cancer.
