With advances in modern medicine, cancer, if detected in its early stages, is usually treatable. A delay in diagnosis can cause a cancer that is curable to advance to the stage where it will most likely result in death. As a general rule, depending on the type of cancer, a delay in diagnosis of six months to one year is significant enough to make a difference in the survival rate. The key to a good prognosis for most cancers is catching it before it metastasises to other organs in the body. A delay in diagnosis usually occurs when a patient complains to their doctor of symptoms and the doctor downplays or ignores the symptoms. Cancer can generally only be diagnosed by an objective test such as a biopsy, CT scan, or MRI. Common cancers in which a delay may occur are colon cancer, gastric cancer, cervical cancer, lymphoma, prostate cancer, and breast cancer. Each one of these types of cancer, if caught early, can usually be treated successfully.

Carey, Danis & Lowe has successfully handled cases involving delay in diagnosis of cervical cancer, gastric cancer, breast cancer, and colon cancer.

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