Average Jury Verdicts in Cancer Misagnosis and Other Cancer Cases
A recent Jury Verdict Research study looking at cancer injuries involving negligence found that the average compensatory award is $4,147,526 (median is $2,052,500). Most of these cancer cases involve medical malpractice lawsuits for the failure to diagnose cancer.
One medical malpractice study found that 12% of the time, cancer is misdiagnosed because a doctor or other health care provder either missed the signs and symptoms of cancer and did not order further testing or because the cancer test was improperly excecuted, read, or an error was made with at the lab or with the radiologist. With breast cancer patients, mammograms have a false-negative - malignant cancer that goes undetected- rate of approximately 10%.
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