Cancer Misdiagnosis Verdict in Pennsylvania
A jury in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania awarded $1.88 million to a Dunmore woman in a cancer misdiagnosis medical malpractice lawsuit filed on behalf of her husband, who died of cancer in 2008. The jury found a urologist, a pathologist, and Wayne Memorial Hospital responsible for failing to diagnose the man with bladder cancer during several doctors’ visits complaining of urinary problems over a sixteen month period.
Cancer of the urinary bladder is the fourth most common malignancy among men, and the eighth most frequent among women. Urinary problems obviously do not necessarily mean a patient has cancer, but obviously this jury found that there was enough evidence where more should have been done when the patient presented with an inflamed and enlarged prostate.
This is a list of cancer misdiagnosis verdicts in Maryland.
