Cancer Misdiagnosis Lawyer in Mobile
Ensuring Justice for Patients
When you seek medical care for concerning health symptoms, you place your trust and your future in the hands of doctors, radiologists, and healthcare systems. When cancer is detected early, modern oncology offers life-saving treatments, targeted therapies, and significantly higher survival rates. However, when a physician fails to recognize the warning signs of malignancy, misses a tumor on an imaging scan, or misinterprets a biopsy report, critical time is lost.
If you or a loved one suffered harm due to a delayed or missed medical diagnosis, consulting an experienced Mobile cancer misdiagnosis attorney at Cunningham Bounds is an essential first step toward securing justice and financial recovery. Since 1958, our law firm has represented individuals and families in Mobile, throughout Alabama, and across the nation in high-stakes medical malpractice litigation.
Looking for justice after a cancer misdiagnosis? Our Mobile cancer misdiagnosis lawyers are here to help. Contact us at (251) 299-0101 for a free consultation.
What Is Cancer?
Cancer occurs when cells in the body grow and divide abnormally, forming tumors or spreading through the bloodstream and lymphatic system. Left unchecked, these abnormal cells can invade healthy tissue and organs, disrupting the body's normal functions. There are more than 100 recognized types of cancer, ranging from breast and prostate cancer to leukemia, lymphoma, and rare pediatric cancers.
What makes cancer particularly dangerous is that early detection dramatically improves outcomes. Many cancers, when caught in their earliest stages, are highly treatable — sometimes curable. But as cancer advances through its stages, treatment becomes more aggressive, survival rates decline, and in many cases, the disease becomes terminal. This is why a timely, accurate diagnosis is one of the most important factors in a patient's prognosis — and why a missed or incorrect diagnosis can have devastating, sometimes fatal, consequences.
Common Forms of Cancer Misdiagnosis
Medical errors involving oncology claims generally fall into three distinct categories:
Delayed Diagnosis
A delayed diagnosis occurs when a patient presents with classic cancer symptoms, but the physician fails to order appropriate diagnostic testing or referrals in a timely manner. The cancer continues to grow unchecked, advancing to a more aggressive or late stage before it is finally identified.
Failure to Diagnose (Missed Diagnosis)
In a total failure to diagnose, the healthcare provider completely overlooks the presence of cancer. A radiologist might misread a mammogram or chest X-ray, or a pathologist might incorrectly mark a tissue biopsy as benign when malignant cells were actually present.
Misdiagnosis (Wrong Diagnosis)
A wrong diagnosis occurs in two main ways:
- Diagnosing the wrong type of cancer: Treating a patient for lung cancer when they actually have lymphoma leads to ineffective, toxic treatments while the real disease progresses.
- False Positive (Diagnosing cancer in a healthy patient): Mistakenly informing a patient they have cancer when they do not leads to devastating psychological trauma, unnecessary surgeries, radiation, or chemotherapy.
Common Causes of Cancer Misdiagnosis
The Cunningham Bounds Experience
A HISTORY OF LEGAL EXCELLENCE
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With Us, It's PersonalThroughout your case, our team will always be accessible, responsive, respectful, honest, and compassionate. Our clients can attest to our high level of service and the longstanding relationships we have forged with them.
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Committed to Our CommunityWe believe in giving back to our community. We provide pro bono (no cost) legal services to those in our community who can’t afford legal representation. We also support local charitable organizations by donating our time, money, and expertise.
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With You to the EndUnlike most plaintiff law firms, we have our own appellate practice, which means we can stay involved in your case throughout the appeals process. We keep fighting until the case is over.
Millions Paid to our Co-Counsel Attorneys Across the Nation
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$50 Million Verdict in Wrongful Death Misdiagnosis Case
Cunningham Bounds attorneys Skip Finkbohner and Lucy Tufts litigated a wrongful death case in which a man who reported ongoing chest pain was sent home from the hospital following a heart catheterization despite clear evidence of serious blockages in his heart. He tragically passed away later that night. A Mobile jury returned a $50,000,000 verdict for his family.
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$35 Million Verdict for Death After Thumb Surgery
On February 22, 2022, Cunningham Bounds obtained a $35 million jury verdict for the family of a man who died following a successful surgery on his thumb more than seven years ago at Springhill Medical Center.
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$20 Million Anesthesia Error Resulting in Death
The attorneys of Cunningham Bounds achieved a $20 million jury verdict for the family of a woman who died after her anesthesia care team failed to follow the accepted standards of care in administering her anesthesia.
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$15 Million Verdict in Medical Malpractice Lawsuit
Cunningham Bounds' attorneys obtained a $15 million verdict against Springhill Memorial Hospital for the wrongful death of a 45-year-old married mother.
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$14.5 Million Verdict in Medical Malpractice Case
The attorneys of Cunningham Bounds obtained a $14.5 million verdict for the mother of a 17-year old child who died as a consequence of improper extubation and inadequate monitoring in post-anesthesia care unit.
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