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A recent Cook County jury verdict of $1.5 million was granted in a failure to diagnose breast cancer lawsuit<\/a>. The Illinois medical malpractice case<\/a> was brought against a family doctor by the surviving family of a 32 year-old woman who died from metastatic breast cancer in Estate of Lorraine Hollister v. Northwest Associates for Women\u2019s Healthcare, P.C., et al<\/em>., 05 L 8872. Hollister’s estate alleged that the family practice physician had elected not to run tests that would have diagnosed the breast cancer three months earlier and that this delay decreased the effectiveness of its subsequent treatment.<\/p>\n

While three months is typically a very short time in terms of a failure to diagnose breast cancer lawsuit<\/a>, there were some special circumstances in Hollister <\/em>. For one, Hollister first complained of pain and discharge from her breast when she was seven months pregnant. During that visit the defendant, Dr. Wener, did not actually perform an examination of her breasts. Instead he simply told her that changes in her breasts were common during pregnancy. No further examinations of her breasts were done during any of her further prenatal visits and her breast cancer was not found until her 6 week postpartum visit.<\/p>\n

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