Pap Smear Negative
for Cervical Cancer
Failure to Diagnose Cervical Cancer
Cervical cancer almost always is curable when diagnosed in its early stages.
The Pap Smear screening test makes early-stage diagnosis of cervical cancer possible in almost all cases when properly performed and accurately read. Pap Smear screening can bring us much closer to the complete elimination of invasive cervical cervical cancer and the pain and suffering left in its wake. In America today, the availability of Pap Smear screening tests and modern cervical cancer treatments have made invasive cervical cancer preventable and almost always curable.
Why do thousands of women continue to die each year from cervical cancer in America when it so easily is preventable and so consistently is curable?
Much too often because of medical malpractice, hospital negligence, and laboratory carelessness.
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The Cervical Cancer Malpractice Case
The Pap Smear Test allows doctors to examine cervical tissue for the presence of abnormal and/or cancer cells. Pap Smear screening also can detect abnormalities, such as a 100% treatable pre-cancerous condition called dysplasia that, if left untreated, could lead to invasive cervical cancer in the future.
Cervical Cancer develops and progresses very slowly. As such, Pap Smear Tests performed regularly and read accurately, combined with prompt treatment when indicated, make invasive Cervical Cancer a preventable and treatable disease.
The slow progression of cervical tissue from normal cervical tissue, through several pre-cancerous changes, to invasive Cervical Cancer and metastasis (spreading to other parts of the body) provides many opportunities for diagnosis and treatment.
When the opportunities for early diagnosis and treatment are missed and invasive Cervical Cancer develops as a result, medical malpractice has occurred.
If a woman with Cervical Cancer has been a patient of a doctor or clinic for some time before being diagnosed with Cervical Cancer.
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Failure to Perform Regular Cervical Exams and Pap Smear Tests
Insufficient Screening
Doctors should perform yearly cervical exams and Pap Smear Tests on all female patients over 18 years old and on all female patients who are sexually active, regardless of age. Cervical exams and Pap Smear Tests may be indicated more often for some women in order to follow minor abnormalities identified on previous Pap Smear Tests. Regular screening is the only way to be sure that Cervical Cancer is diagnosed at an early stage, when it can be cured with proper treatment.
A doctor's failure to perform regular cervical exams and Pap Smear Tests can delay the diagnosis of Cervical Cancer and allow developing Cervical Cancer to grow and spread freely. The longer the delay in the diagnosis and proper treatment of Cervical Cancer, the fewer available treatment options remain and the greater the risks of complications and death.
A delay in the diagnosis of Cervical Cancer can prevent a woman from receiving proper treatment when the cancer still is at a stage when it may cured. As a result, a delay in the diagnosis of Cervical Cancer can cause a woman's completely preventable, needless death.
Misread Pap Smear Test
Failure to Diagnose Cervical Cancer on Pap Smear
The Pap Smear is the primary screening test that has made possible the early diagnosis of Cervical Cancer. Regular Pap Smear screening should eliminate Cervical Cancer as a cause of death.
Although Pap Smear Tests are performed performed by medical doctors, they typically are not read by medical doctors. Pap Smears typically are read by cytotechnologists at the large laboratories where the slides are sent to be evaluated.
Because cytotechnologists are not medical doctors and are required to read a high volume of Pap Smears, the incidence of Pap Tests being misread is alarmingly high. In 1989, American Medical Association documented that up to 30% of all Pap Smear Tests reported to show no adverse changes had cancer or cancer-like cells present that required treatment.
Each time a positive Pap Smear Test is misread and reported as negative, a woman is led to believe she is safe from Cervical Cancer. In reality, the misread Pap Smear Test only has made it safe for Cervical Cancer to grow and spread freely inside her body. A misread Pap Smear Test can allow pre-cancerous cells to develop into Cervical Cancer and Cervical Cancer to progress from an early stage when it can be treated by a cone biopsy or surgery (such as a hysterectomy), to a later stage that requires extensive radiation and chemotherapy, which can lead to serious and permanent health conditions such as radiation cystitis, radiation proctitis, radiation-induced gastrointestinal reflux disease, and death, etc..
A delay in the diagnosis of Cervical Cancer can prevent a woman from receiving proper treatment when her cervical cancer still is at a stage when it may cured. The failure to diagnose Cervical Cancer in a timely manner may result in a woman's completely preventable, needless death.
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Pap Smear and Cervical Cancer Malpractice
Table of Contents
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The Most Common and Deadly Pap Cervical Cancer Mistakes
Cervical Cancer Malpractice Introduction
The Cervical Cancer Malpractice Case
Failure to Perform Regular Cervical Exams and Pap Smear Tests
Misread Pap Smear Test
Cervical Cancer Information
What is Cervical Cancer?
Risk Factors
Symptoms of Cervical Cancer
Pap Smear Screening Test
Confirmation of Cervical Cancer Diagnosis
Treatment of Cervical Cancer
Pap Smear Screening Test Information
Pap Smear Screening Test
Dr. George Papanicolaou and the History of the Pap Smear Test
Insufficient Pap Smear Screening
Pap Smear Screening Test
Confirmation of Cervical Cancer Diagnosis
Failure to Diagnose Cervical Cancer on Pap Smear
Cervical Cancer News Information Links
Cervical Cancer Information Links
Cervical Cancer News Links Blog
