Medical Malpractice

Breast Cancer

MISDIAGNOSIS, AND LATE DIAGNOSIS OF BREAST CANCER CONTINUES WITH ALARMING FREQUENCY IN THE U.S.

Death rates from breast cancer have been declining in the United States since 1990, due in large part to improvements in treatment options and increased awareness of the need for earlier screenings.

However, despite the downward trend in breast cancer fatalities, American epidemiology experts predict that more than 40,000 women in the U.S. will die from breast cancer in 2011. And, frighteningly, anywhere between 15%-%20 of those deaths will be due to misdiagnosis, or late diagnosis of breast cancer, by doctors, and/or errors made by medical technicians whose misread biopsies, mammograms and other diagnostic screenings for the disease.

When medical errors of this magnitude are made, not only are patients’ lives destroyed, but their spouses and children are left to suffer the heart-breaking consequences of adjusting to lives without a wife, or mother.

If you, or someone you know, has been the victim of a misdiagnosis, or late diagnosis of breast cancer, you should contact the New York and New Jersey medical malpractice lawyers at Simonson Hess Leibowitz & Goodman, a law firm that has represented the victims of late diagnosis and misdiagnosis of breast cancer for more than three decades.

Our law firm has recovered money for our clients in 98% of the breast cancer negligence cases we have handled. The total dollars we have recovered for clients who have been victims of late diagnosis and misdiagnosis of breast cancer has totaled in the many millions.

Collectively our lawyers have more than one hundred years of experience representing victims of late and misdiagnosis of breast cancer.

Further, Simonson Hess Leibowitz & Goodman is one of only seven law firms in New York City to be ranked by US News & World Report as a New York Tier 1 law firm in the category of Medical Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs in 2010. One of our lawyers has been recognized in Best Lawyers in America, and four of our partners have been recognized in Super Lawyers.