Was Your Cancer Misdiagnosis Medical Malpractice? Leave a Comment / By Freedland Harwin Valori Gander / June 5, 2024 1. Did your doctor refuse to offer diagnostic tests or delay testing when you reported symptoms? Yes No None 2. Did your doctor recommend routine cancer screening tests, such as mammograms, pap smears, or PSA tests, that would have resulted in a correct diagnosis? Yes No None 3. Did your doctor consult a specialist or refer you to a specialist? Yes No None 4. Did a laboratory worker or pathologist misread a mammogram, biopsy, pap smear, PSA test, or other screening test? Yes No None 5. Did you wait months to receive test results from a screening test or a diagnostic test that detected cancer? Yes No None 6. Did your cancer spread beyond the initial site to surrounding areas or distant locations in your body between the date of your initial misdiagnosis and the date you received a correct diagnosis? Yes No None 7. Was surgery still an option on the day you received a correct diagnosis of cancer? Yes No None 8. Did you suffer severe side effects from cancer treatment because you were limited to less safe and effective treatment options than those that might have been available with an earlier diagnosis? Yes No None 9. Have you been told that your cancer is already too advanced for treatment because your doctor treated the originally diagnosed condition instead of cancer? Yes No None 10. Are you suffering from chemotherapy side effects because your doctor misdiagnosed you with cancer when you had something else? Yes No None Time's up
