Medical Malpractice and Prostate Cancer Radiation Mistakes

Prostate cancer happens when uncontrollable cells within the prostate grow, creating small tumors. Unlike normal cells, the growth of cancer cells is no longer regulated.  Instead of normal dying cells, cancer cells outlive normal cells and continuing to form new abnormal cells.

There are many treatments for prostate cancer, depending on the stage prostate cancer is diagnosed. Brachytherapy is not as common as some treatments but is gaining in popularity. During brachytherapy, tiny metal pellets containing radioactive iodine are inserted into the prostate via needles that enter through the skin behind the testicles. As with radiation therapy, precise maps are used to ensure that seeds are placed in the proper locations.

Over the course of several months, the seeds give off radiation to the immediate surrounding area, killing the prostate cancer cells. By the end of the year, the radioactive material degrades and the remaining seeds are harmless.

What could go wrong?

If you are a veteran and were treated at the veteran's hospital in Philadelphia, you could be a prostate cancer victim of radioactive seeds that were erroneously implanted in a healthy bladder or rectum.

Worse, your surgeon's mistake was never documented or if it was documented, never investigated. It's possible you suffered seriously painful repercussions to your bowels or bladder and when you complained were given suppositories, pills, and narcotics – none which helped the problem or eased your pain. It's also possible that this serious botched radiation therapy for prostate cancer affected your job performance and quality of life.

As a matter of fact, there was no internal peer review by the hospital and no outside scrutiny by the regulatory commissions. There were no checks and balances for medical malpractice wrongdoings.

You are not alone in your pain and suffering. Of the 116 cancer treatments performed in more than six years, 92 were botched in some way. Part of the problem was from broken equipment that failed to measure whether the patients received the proper radiation doses. The problem was evident to the VA hospital administration but they took no action. Patients were clueless that their cancer treatments were flawed.

Veterans deserve better and so do prostate cancer patients everywhere.

If you or a family member has been the victim of prostate cancer radiation therapy gone wrong, now is the time to contact a medical malpractice law firm well versed in medical malpractice lawsuits and medical malpractice settlements. Please contact Anapol Schwartz for your free legal consultation. Find out how we can help make wrongs right.

 

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