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Failure to diagnose lung cancer in veteran A Pittsburgh resident in his late 50s died as a result of a delay in diagnosing lung cancer. The cancer was first “missed” on a CT scan done in early 2012 at a private hospital, and then in 2013 at a Veterans Hospital in the Pittsburgh area. The patient… read more
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Failure to diagnose lung cancer in Sarcoidosis patient Recovery for a Washington County man whose 67-year-old wife died due to a delay in diagnosing lung cancer. This woman, who was not a smoker, had a long-standing inflammatory condition in her lungs known as Sarcoidosis. Therefore, when some abnormal growths/masses showed up on her chest x-ray, the doctor… read more
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A retired man from Erie had a routine chest X-ray done before entering the hospital for surgery on his leg. The chest X-ray showed suspicious signs that he might have lung cancer, but his doctor never read the report of the X-ray results and, as a result, the man was never referred for further investigation… read more
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A 54-year-old nurse from Uniontown, Fayette County, experienced a two-year delay in diagnosing lung cancer because a radiologist at a hospital in Connellsville, Fayette County, “missed” an obvious spot on her lung that should have been seen on a CT scan. Because of the delay, what started out as a small tumor that could have been successfully… read more
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