QUESTION
can we sue for medical malpractice
Asked on Oct 17th, 2012 on Medical Malpractice - Maryland
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my husband was told a year and a half ago he had throat cancer, he went through chem. and radiation, it then moved to his lungs a year ago. now he has been told that he has tumors on his brain because chemo dosent reach the braib so cancer finds a place to "hide" but no one told us that or order a mri to make sure they didnt move there. At it point the tumors are so big he has to have brain sugery before they do radiation or it will kill him.
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I'm sorry you are going through these things. Cancer is an insidious disease and it puts people through hell.
I don't think you have a viable malpractice case because once cancer metastasizes it is impossible to prevent it from going to the brain, as your doctor explained. While an MRI would have allowed you to know that the cancer was present sooner, I don't think that the standard of care requires an oncologist to perform an MRI in the absence of symptoms.
Good luck to you through these difficult times.
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Answered on Oct 18th, 2012 at 2:21 PM