2003 ACR publication acknowledging that mammograms miss 52% of cancer in women with dense breasts [PDF]
Despite decades of scientific evidence that mammograms miss more breast cancers than they detect in women with dense breasts, this special interest medical group called the “American College of Radiologists” has failed to publish any updated guidelines that require doctors to advise patients of these facts, and let women know other non-invasive tests are available (such as Breast-MRI and Breast Ultrasounds) that will find these very same cancers that mammography will miss.
Unnecessary Surgery causes death of pregnant woman and her unborn child. [PDF]
This is a wrongful death case where a doctor inexplicably told a pregnant woman to have her lap band surgically removed while pregnant. A result of inadequate post operative monitoring the patient suffered aspiration and died along with her unborn child.
Trial of Failure to Diagnose Breast Cancer Medical Malpractice Case [PDF]
This is a failure to diagnose breast cancer case where the doctor failed to check the woman’s breast for a period of 5 years until after there was a metastasis.
2011 MQSA Meeting to Require Federal Government to Enforce Breast Cancer Law [PDF]
In November 2011 a meeting was convened in Washington DC to urge legislators to start enforcing the Mammography Quality & Standards Act which requires physicians to advise women of the results of their mammograms in “plain english”. Since its inception, doctors throughout the country have flouted the law by not advising women of the significance of dense breasts, the fact that mammograms will miss over half the cancers in these women, and that additional non-invasive screening tests are available which can find the cancer that their mammograms are missing.