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MEDICAL MALPRACTICE
West Virginia woman sues doctor and medical center after misdiagnosis of lung cancer and detrimental therapy
August 27, 2008 – A West Virginia woman who was diagnosed with lung cancer – and underwent weeks of radiation and chemotherapy – is suing her doctor and medical center for medical malpractice after the doctor changed his diagnosis a year later, the Charleston Gazette reported today.
The doctor’s new diagnosis concluded she did not have small cell lung cancer, after all. The disease is almost always caused by smoking, and the woman is a non-smoker.
But the damage was done. The unnecessary radiation and chemotherapy treatment left her with a shrunken esophagus, making it painful for her to swallow food.
Treatment for the narrowed esophagus now requires her to have a plastic ball inserted into her throat and inflated to stretch it out every month, a procedure she’ll have to endure for the rest of her life, according to court papers filed in Kanawha Circuit Court.
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