Failure To Diagnose Cervical Cancer

Focus On Cervical Cancer

The misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis of cervical cancer due to misread pap smears constitutes medical negligence. If you or a loved one is suffering from cervical cancer due to a misdiagnosis or incorrectly read pap smear, you may feel as though you have nowhere to turn - but you do. The lawyers at Meyers Evans & Associates focus on cancer misdiagnosis lawsuits.

In 1943, George Papanicolaou, M.D., published his work on the diagnosis of cervical cancer by an examination of cells removed from the surface of the cervix. It was 15 or 20 years before the "Pap" was incorporated into most health care programs in North America. The development of the Pap smear raised exciting possibilities. It was possible, by looking at cells easily removed from a woman's cervix during a routine pelvic examination, to diagnose conditions, which, if treated by simple means, could actually eliminate the possibility of a woman's developing invasive cancer.

The Pap Smear

Even with all the possibilities created by Pap smear screening programs, this year, close to 14,000 new cases of invasive cervical cancer will be diagnosed, and of those women suffering from that disease, many will die needlessly.