Medical Malpractice for Failure to Diagnose Cancer - $591,000 recovery for a 73-year-old man arising out of a primary care physician's failure to diagnose prostate cancer. The patient's prostate was enlarged and his test results were elevated. The doctor never informed the patient that these findings could be indicative of cancer, and he did not order follow-up tests to investigate the cause of the abnormal findings. By the time the cancer was detected, it had spread to the man's bones. A urologist treated the cancer by surgically removing the patient's prostate and administering a regimen of drugs, and the cancer went into remission. After trial, the jurors stated that they were persuaded to find the defendant negligent in part due to our cross-examining the defendant's retained expert witness with a textbook he authored that contradicted the opinions he rendered in this case.