This medical negligence lawsuit involved the failure to diagnose ovarian cancer.<\/p>\n
The settlement in this lawsuit is one of the largest recorded in Illinois, at $3 million for the failure of a doctor to diagnose ovarian cancer in a 49-year-old lesbian. The woman and her partner filed the lawsuit alleging the radiologist at a Chicago hospital identified a complex cyst while completing an ultrasound. The results were sent to the woman\u2019s doctor, with the recommendation that follow-up scans be done within 12 weeks. The follow-up scans were never ordered.<\/p>\n
Fourteen months later, the woman was diagnosed with Stage IIIC, small cell cancer. If her doctor had ordered follow-up scans, her initially treatable Stage I tumor would not have grown into a non-curable, untreatable mass. By the time a diagnosis was made, the cancer had spread to her lymph nodes and other organs. She required extensive chemotherapy and aggressive resection surgery. Her survival rate, (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This medical negligence lawsuit involved the failure to diagnose ovarian cancer. The settlement in this lawsuit is one of the largest recorded in Illinois, at $3 million for the failure of a doctor to diagnose ovarian cancer in a 49-year-old…<\/span><\/p>\n