thomasdevos
10-05-2009, 10:43 PM
When a diagnosis of prostate cancer was preventable advanced
Imagine finding out you have cancer of the prostate.??at is difficult because "cancer" is one word that brings with it the fear of pain, fear of treatment and fear of death.??t perhaps , you say, maybe not so bad.??ybe we discovered earlier and with the proper treatment I'll survive.?
But it gets worse.??agine then discover that it's too late for that.??e cancer has already spread to other areas of your body.??ure is no longer a possibility.??t better than you can hope for is a treatment to slow the progression of the disease.??econd later after the treatment stopped working, treatment can reduce pain caused by cancer that is growing still.?
You've probably next ask, "Why me?"? "It was bad luck???d then you are probably wondering" Was there any way it could have been avoided? "?" Was there something I could have done differently to have prevented what is now a result incurable? "??
And then the news gets worse.??agine now discover that your physician, the individual you trust to keep you healthy and to notify you of any potential health problem, had information that you were at risk of developing prostate cancer.??agine discover that your doctor you had this information a year or more before you told you had cancer. ND image??iscover that if your doctor gave you that information at its first disposition of your cancer could be detected while it was still contained to the prostate and could have been cured, could be eliminated with proper treatment. ?
Do you think this does not work? Pool??onsider the following cases:
Case 1:
For a period of three years an internist did not tell his patient that blood tests revealed that the patient PSA level was not only high, it is also rising.?? when the doctor finally told his patient the results of the diagnostic test of prostate cancer was advanced.??t only options available for treatment at this time were radiotherapy and hormone therapy ? applied in order to slow growth cancer and its spread.?
Case 2:
Not only doctor in this case not tell his patient's PSA level was abnormal and upward, the physician told him they were normal.??he patient discovered he had cancer of the prostate , after having consulted a urologist at the instigation of a family member.??e diagnosis ? prostate cancer that has spread to the seminal vesicles.?
3 Box:
A family physician who performed a digital examination on the patient noted that his prostate gland had a hardened area.??octor did not tell his patient.??octor, he does not mention the patient to urologist for consultation.??octor he did not order a biopsy to determine if the area has been hardened cancerous.??en the patient eventually discovered that the cancer had already metastasized to other parts of his body.?
Case 4:
For two and a half years of a doctor male patient has information that the PSA of the patient are high.??en the patient is finally diagnosed with prostate cancer, he tries surgery in the hope that cancer has not spread beyond the prostate and that surgery could remove the cancer.?? also undergoes months of hormone treatment.??h and post-surgical PSA levels confirms that the operation does not remove not cancer and it is always present in his body.?
Cases like the one above occur too frequently.??e doctors do not check the test results, whether they buy into the thinking that it is not necessary to take steps to reach a PSA certain level or a nodule of a certain size is detected in the prostate, or if they simply do not understand the guidelines and standards of practice for the action that is appropriate when screening results are abnormal, the doctors cause retardation resulting from the growth and spread of cancer. It??esult: a preventable death becomes inevitable.
There were law firms representing patients and families in all four cases mentioned above.??aid hey be able to resolve the cases for amounts ranging from $ 400,000 1,500,000 $.
Imagine that the patient who receives the news.??r fight against cancer as hard and as long as you can.??agine being a spouse or partner.??agine being his son or daughter.??agine be his father or his mother.??r help fight against cancer and you give him all the love and support you can.?
Perhaps you also decide to submit a claim for medical malpractice to help protect the future of your family.??D you hope that if forced to face the error, and assuming a cost for She, perhaps, just maybe, this doctor will change the way he or she treats other patients in the future so that this tragedy will not happen again.
Reference Site:
prostate cancer treatment (http://prostate-cancer-treatment-cure.com)
prostatecancerfoundation (http://www.prostatecancerfoundation.org)
en.wikipedia.org (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostate_cancer)
www.cancer.gov (http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/prostate)
neworiental (http://www.neworiental.org/publish/portal0/tab1127/info377702.htm)
Imagine finding out you have cancer of the prostate.??at is difficult because "cancer" is one word that brings with it the fear of pain, fear of treatment and fear of death.??t perhaps , you say, maybe not so bad.??ybe we discovered earlier and with the proper treatment I'll survive.?
But it gets worse.??agine then discover that it's too late for that.??e cancer has already spread to other areas of your body.??ure is no longer a possibility.??t better than you can hope for is a treatment to slow the progression of the disease.??econd later after the treatment stopped working, treatment can reduce pain caused by cancer that is growing still.?
You've probably next ask, "Why me?"? "It was bad luck???d then you are probably wondering" Was there any way it could have been avoided? "?" Was there something I could have done differently to have prevented what is now a result incurable? "??
And then the news gets worse.??agine now discover that your physician, the individual you trust to keep you healthy and to notify you of any potential health problem, had information that you were at risk of developing prostate cancer.??agine discover that your doctor you had this information a year or more before you told you had cancer. ND image??iscover that if your doctor gave you that information at its first disposition of your cancer could be detected while it was still contained to the prostate and could have been cured, could be eliminated with proper treatment. ?
Do you think this does not work? Pool??onsider the following cases:
Case 1:
For a period of three years an internist did not tell his patient that blood tests revealed that the patient PSA level was not only high, it is also rising.?? when the doctor finally told his patient the results of the diagnostic test of prostate cancer was advanced.??t only options available for treatment at this time were radiotherapy and hormone therapy ? applied in order to slow growth cancer and its spread.?
Case 2:
Not only doctor in this case not tell his patient's PSA level was abnormal and upward, the physician told him they were normal.??he patient discovered he had cancer of the prostate , after having consulted a urologist at the instigation of a family member.??e diagnosis ? prostate cancer that has spread to the seminal vesicles.?
3 Box:
A family physician who performed a digital examination on the patient noted that his prostate gland had a hardened area.??octor did not tell his patient.??octor, he does not mention the patient to urologist for consultation.??octor he did not order a biopsy to determine if the area has been hardened cancerous.??en the patient eventually discovered that the cancer had already metastasized to other parts of his body.?
Case 4:
For two and a half years of a doctor male patient has information that the PSA of the patient are high.??en the patient is finally diagnosed with prostate cancer, he tries surgery in the hope that cancer has not spread beyond the prostate and that surgery could remove the cancer.?? also undergoes months of hormone treatment.??h and post-surgical PSA levels confirms that the operation does not remove not cancer and it is always present in his body.?
Cases like the one above occur too frequently.??e doctors do not check the test results, whether they buy into the thinking that it is not necessary to take steps to reach a PSA certain level or a nodule of a certain size is detected in the prostate, or if they simply do not understand the guidelines and standards of practice for the action that is appropriate when screening results are abnormal, the doctors cause retardation resulting from the growth and spread of cancer. It??esult: a preventable death becomes inevitable.
There were law firms representing patients and families in all four cases mentioned above.??aid hey be able to resolve the cases for amounts ranging from $ 400,000 1,500,000 $.
Imagine that the patient who receives the news.??r fight against cancer as hard and as long as you can.??agine being a spouse or partner.??agine being his son or daughter.??agine be his father or his mother.??r help fight against cancer and you give him all the love and support you can.?
Perhaps you also decide to submit a claim for medical malpractice to help protect the future of your family.??D you hope that if forced to face the error, and assuming a cost for She, perhaps, just maybe, this doctor will change the way he or she treats other patients in the future so that this tragedy will not happen again.
Reference Site:
prostate cancer treatment (http://prostate-cancer-treatment-cure.com)
prostatecancerfoundation (http://www.prostatecancerfoundation.org)
en.wikipedia.org (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostate_cancer)
www.cancer.gov (http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/prostate)
neworiental (http://www.neworiental.org/publish/portal0/tab1127/info377702.htm)