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When Doctors Fail To Diagnose Breast Cancer

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women, and all women over 50 are at risk for the dangerous and deadly disease. All in all, 12 percent of women will develop breast cancer at some point in their lives. Breast cancer become more and more deadly as it progresses, making an early, correct, and prompt diagnosis vital in surviving the disease that takes the lives of thousands of women a year across the country. If breast cancer is not diagnosed early, the cancer often spreads to other parts of the body, making it much harder to control or cure.

If a doctor fails to diagnose your case of breast cancer, you could have the foundation of a medical malpractice suit against your physician. If your doctor is given the fair opportunity to diagnose your breast cancer but does not do so, he or she could be negligent if your cancer caused your injury and that your injury was the direct result of a failure to diagnose the cancer previously.

A failure to diagnose breast cancer may occur if:

· You are younger than 50 years old and your doctor believe you are too young to have breast cancer. In these cases, women are often misdiagnosed as having fibrocystic disease.

· You are a male - men can have breast cancer too, though many doctors may ignore or overlook the symptoms.

· Your biopsy test is done incorrectly, leading to the wrong results. Either the test could be conducted wrong, or the cancerous legion could be missed entirely during the extraction of cells.

· Your doctor does inadequate screen for the disease even if you are a high-risk patient, or your doctor does not follow up your complaint of breast cancer symptoms (lumps, pain, nipple discharge, reddened breast) with the proper diagnostic tests.

· Your doctor fails to tell you the test results of your biopsy.


If you believe your doctor failed to diagnose your breast cancer, and that this failure to diagnose your breast cancer led directly your harmed health, you should contact a medical malpractice attorney immediately.

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