Failure to diagnose cervical cancer malpractice
The Pap smear test is a test that is carried out as a diagnosis to know whether a patient is affected due to the cervical cancer. The cervical cancer disease is a curable one if proper diagnosis is made by the medical professional and if there is no medical malpractice. The Pap smear tests should be performed carefully and should be read carefully else the early stage of the cervical cancer can be missed out and this may lead the person affected by cervical cancer to death.
The Pap smear tests are not read by the doctors usually. The result of the test is read by the cytotechnologists. These cytotechnologists are the lab persons where the slides once the test taken is evaluated. The Pap smear tests are read wrongly by many of these cytotechnologists. Whenever a Pap smear test is misread many women without knowing that it is misread they feel safe. It is all in hands of the cytotechnologists.
The main problem in misreading or in failure in the diagnosis is since the patient is told that they are not affected by the cervical cancer the growth of the tissue increases and leads to the final stage of the cancer due to this many people across America has lost their lives. A recent survey in America says that 30 % of the people in America have lost their lives due to the misread of the Pap smear test and this is one of the noticeable cervical cancer medical malpractices.
