Recent cancer negligence cases
£800,000 compensation for the bereaved partner and children of a 28-year-old woman who died from ovarian cancer and its spread (metastasis) to other areas of her body, after years of negligent hospital failure to correctly diagnose and remove an ovarian cyst. After liability was admitted we secured an interim (advance) payment of £20,000 to ease the family’s financial hardship whilst we worked with our client and experts to value the claim.
£800,000 compensation for a client who developed cervical cancer after hospital and GP delays in reporting a smear test and referring her to a gynaecological specialist. She required intensive chemo-radiotherapy which left her with permanent, severe pain and psychological injury. We overcame the defendants’ denial of liability and secured judgment for our client and a negotiated settlement.
£800,000 settlement for a woman who was given negligent advice (lack of informed consent) leading to inadequate treatment for CIN3 /severe dyskaryosis. She developed cervical cancer and suffered severe injury from her chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatment, including ongoing pain, problems with bowel, bladder and sexual function, and psychological symptoms. She asked us to help her make a claim after other solicitors had refused to take on her case.
£700,000 compensation for our client after hospital failure to follow up abnormal smear and biopsy results led to cervical cancer. Correct treatment would have avoided cancer. Instead, she suffered an early caesarean section to deliver her baby, chemo-radiotherapy with severe side effects, and has ongoing pain, fatigue, infertility, premature menopause, urinary and bowel dysfunction and psychological injury. We secured interim payments of £50,000 earlier in the case to pay for therapies and treatment and ease financial hardship.
£575,000 compensation for a client who suffered recurrent cervical cancer after a hospital’s inadequate reporting of colposcopy histology samples led to a series of missed opportunities to investigate, diagnose and treat her cervical cancer. Our client was left with physical and psychological injuries as a result of the recurrence and its treatment with chemo-radiotherapy.
£250,000 compensation settlement for the bereaved family of a young woman whose cervical cancer diagnosis and treatment were negligently delayed when a GP failed to refer her for a follow-up smear test. Chemo-radiotherapy treatment was initially thought to be successful, but she suffered a recurrence of the cancer and, despite intensive treatment, died 12 months later.
£265,000 settlement in a fatal claim arising from delayed diagnosis and treatment of a young woman’s cervical cancer.
£122,000 compensation for a client who suffered an extravasation injury, causing pain, blistering and permanent weakness to her dominant arm, during chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer.
£750,000 compensation for a client who suffered cervical cancer needing radical chemo-radiotherapy after a biopsy and follow up smear test were incorrectly reported. She has been left with severe and debilitating bowel dysfunction, bladder problems, pain, nausea, premature menopause and a psychological injury, and is at increased risk of recurrence of the disease.