Misdiagnosis of Lung cancer
Lung cancer is often overlooked or delayed in diagnosis. Lung cancer ranks 4th in malpractice lawsuits, with the typical claim over failure to diagnose early enough. Many suits argue a failure by the doctor to identify a symptom and a failure to order tests such as chest x-rays.
| About misdiagnosis: When checking for a misdiagnosis of Lung cancer or confirming a diagnosis of Lung cancer, it is useful to consider what other medical conditions might be possible misdiagnoses or other alternative conditions relevant to diagnosis. These alternate diagnoses of Lung cancer may already have been considered by your doctor or may need to be considered as possible alternative diagnoses or candidates for misdiagnosis of Lung cancer. For a general overview of misdiagnosis issues for all diseases, see Overview of Misdiagnosis. |
Lung cancer as an alternative diagnosis: The other diseases for which Lung cancer is listed as a possible alternative diagnosis in their lists include:
Medical news summaries about misdiagnosis of Lung cancer: The following medical news items are relevant to misdiagnosis of Lung cancer:
- Cancer screening tests have a high rate of false positive results
- Lung cancers due to asbestos are not being diagnosed
- Woman dies of undiagnosed lung cancer
- Woman with lung cancer misdiagnosed with pneumonia and bronchitis
- Wrongly diagnosed cancer leads to unnecessary removal of lung lobe
Misdiagnosis cases for Lung cancer:
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June 2, 2003
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