Failure To Diagnose Cancer Too Common Malpractice
Posted on March 1, 2008 - Filed Under Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
One of the most frequent types of cases seen in medical malpractice is the failure to diagnose cancer. Cancer is a group of more than 100 different diseases and occurs when cells become abnormal and keep dividing and forming more cells without control. If cells continue to divide when new cells are not needed, a mass of excess tissue is formed; this is a tumor. Tumors can be either benign (non-cancerous) or malignant (cancerous). Cancer cells can also invade nearby tissues or travel through the bloodstream to form additional tumors elsewhere. The spreading of cancer is referred to as metastasis.
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