Breast Cancer Malpractice

Breast cancer malpractice lawsuits are common because of advances in modern technology: we can beat breast cancer in the vast majority of cases if we can catch it early.  If breast cancer is detected on or before the Stage II, the 5-year survival rate is generally over 80 percent and even higher for otherwise healthy people.   

Conversely, if breast cancer is not detected until it has reached stage III, the 5-year survival rate drops to roughly 54%.   Even at Stage III, most woman are going to survive and thrive.  In the minority of these Stage III cases with unsuccessful outcomes,  tere are so challenges because of some problematic ruling by the Maryland high court in loss of chancer wrongful death cases.  

The "best" cases - and it feels awful writing that - are Stage IV cases that should have been caught at Stage I or Stage II.  For Stage IV breast cancer, the 5-year survival rate is approximately 20%.

It is unbelievably important to remember when you are looking at breast cancer statistics that they are just that, statistics.  Everyone is different and this is a disease - at every stage - that a lot of women beat.