Richard E. Shugrue, JD, PhD

Dr. Severin's article is a valuable asset for the practitioner--legal or medical--or academician concerned with the burgeoning of civil lawsuits over failure to comply with new approaches to the management and control of cancer. The article identifies two types of such suits and explores the history of medical malpractice litigation relating to cancer care. The focus is the physician who either misses or fails to make a timely diagnosis of hereditable cancer.