Month: July 2016

In its early stages, colon cancer doesn’t always cause symptoms, making proactive diagnosis difficult. While some patients will experience rectal bleeding, or changes in their bowel habits, most people are diagnosed on the basis of a routine colonoscopy – prior to the appearance of any symptoms. To make matters more difficult, colon cancer’s early warning …

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When doctors make mistakes, it’s not always medical malpractice. The law doesn’t hold physicians accountable for every error. Medicine, after all, is an imperfect science, especially when it comes to accurately diagnosing colon cancer. That can be true even when a doctor’s mistake causes demonstrable harm. Medical Malpractice & Delayed Diagnosis We can’t expect perfection from …

Delayed Colon Cancer Diagnosis: When Is It Malpractice? Read More »

Look inside any human breast, even a male breast, and you’ll find around 15 to 20 lobes, collections of glandular tissue that radiate outward from the nipple “like the petals of a daisy,” according to the Mayo Clinic. Each lobe is itself divided into smaller groupings of tissue called lobules, which produce milk. Thin tubes, called …

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