Medical Negligence - Sueing a Practicioner in QLD?
Has anyone gone down this route at all? Has your case been accepted as a valid case for medical negligence? How did you start the process? Who did you see?
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@Cate64, it must be so difficult to not know if your cancer could/should have been detected earlier. I wish you all the best with investigating this further. So important for others who may present as you did in the future!
@melclarity you make a good point. The Grade refers to how fast your cancer (or aggressive is another term) is growing. So as you say, your cancer went from undetectable to Stage 2 (how advanced it was in size and spread) in just a year.
When I was diagnosed my cancer was Stage 3 (spread to more than 3 lymph nodes unfortunately). It was only Grade 2 (so not as fast growing as yours) though. My oncologist's best guess was that it would not have been detectable as little as a year before.
It seems that breast cancer can be very fast growing for some of us. I guess that as it is always removed/treated as soon as it is detected, no one really knows how fast a tumour can grow/spread. Different types of breast cancers also probably behave in different ways. So much still is unknown! :/
@melclarity you make a good point. The Grade refers to how fast your cancer (or aggressive is another term) is growing. So as you say, your cancer went from undetectable to Stage 2 (how advanced it was in size and spread) in just a year.
When I was diagnosed my cancer was Stage 3 (spread to more than 3 lymph nodes unfortunately). It was only Grade 2 (so not as fast growing as yours) though. My oncologist's best guess was that it would not have been detectable as little as a year before.
It seems that breast cancer can be very fast growing for some of us. I guess that as it is always removed/treated as soon as it is detected, no one really knows how fast a tumour can grow/spread. Different types of breast cancers also probably behave in different ways. So much still is unknown! :/