Case Description

The plaintiff, Melissa Ward, was 40 years old when she underwent five months of chemotherapy followed by nipple-sparing mastectomy to remove invasive triple negative cancer from her right breast. Except the surgeon failed to remove a significant portion of breast tissue – including the cancer. A series of subsequent errors on the part of the surgeon, the medical oncologist, and two radiologists resulted in no one detecting the retained tumor for nearly nine months. By the time the tumor was removed the patient had developed DCIS in the surrounding breast tissue, requiring multiple additional surgeries, 5 weeks of daily radiation therapy, chest reconstruction surgeries bilaterally, and the deprivation of standard, evidence-based chemotherapy treatment. 

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