The Cochran Firm Legal Blog

A jury has awarded the family of a Nevada woman who died of cancer $2.5 million. They found that doctors had failed to diagnose her cancer, which killed her when she was only 27-years-old. The 2007 death of the woman was blamed primarily on the doctor, who was found to be negligent in caring for the woman and offering substandard treatment, and a nurse at the family practice.

Both the doctor and nurse repeatedly misdiagnosed the young woman’s colon and rectal cancer as hemorrhoids.

The victim worked in retail, and her husband and five-year-old daughter were awarded the money for economic losses for future lost wages.

Failure to diagnose cancer dramatically increases the chances that the sufferer will die as a result of missing out on early treatment. A misdiagnosis, or no diagnosis at all, is primarily through improper blood or tissue sampling or misreading the results in the lab. The most commonly misdiagnosed cancers are:

• Breast
• Cervical
• Colon
• Esophageal
• Prostate

If you or a loved one has had a healthcare provider misdiagnose your cancer as something more benign, please contact the experienced medical malpractice attorneys at the Cochran Firm today.