Charlotte Failure to Diagnose Cancer Attorney
The more time you have, the easier it is to beat cancer. The failure to diagnose cancer can cost you years of potential treatment. If you have suffered due a doctor's misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis, an early consultation with a firm that knows what they are doing is more likely to get results. At the Charlotte Law Office of Elam & Rousseaux, we only handle medical malpractice cases.
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When there is a failure to diagnose cancer, or delayed diagnosis, the patient loses the ability to get early treatment. Timely intervention is essential to stop cancer before it metastasizes, because after that, the odds of survival drastically plummet. It is common for a client with stage I cancer to have an eighty percent survival rate, where their chances for survival can drop as low as five percent with stage IV cancer.
The failure to properly diagnose cancer can drastically alter many aspects of your life. Even if you are able to fight the cancer successfully, the delayed diagnosis will have an increased and unnecessary impact on you and your family. Whether you are fighting breast cancer or color cancer, you want to have as much time as possible to make a full recover. We have helped clients facing a variety of obstacles after a misdiagnosis or the failure to diagnose cancer:
- We helped one client with a nodule on her lung that was recognized, but never treated. In that time it went from stage I cancer to a stage IV.
- We helped a patient who had cervical cancer that spread to ovarian cancer, which is much more deadly and difficult to treat.
- We represented the estate of a woman who had a positive mammogram. When the report came back, the doctor put it in her file, but never did anything about it. She died a year later.
- We helped one woman who had a biopsy on one breast. There was a positive mammogram on the other breast as well, but they never did a biopsy. She went through all the treatments, but there was never any cancer on the other breast.
All these mistakes could have been easily avoided, and helped these clients get years of their life back.
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From a delayed diagnosis to a misdiagnosis, you want your doctor to take all proper precaution when dealing with something as serious as cancer. At the Charlotte Law Office of Elam & Rousseaux, we protect people who have been the victims of the failure to diagnose cancer. Contact us today for a free initial consultation.
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