Medical Oncology

Medical Oncology expert witnesses provide medical-legal opinions related to the diagnosis and treatment of cancer using chemotherapy or other medications (eg: targeted therapy, immunotherapy, hormonal therapy, biological therapy). The Medical Oncologists listed here may provide opinions in matters of alleged malpractice related to delayed and missed diagnosis (eg: misreading of pathology slides), especially missing second malignancies in cancer survivors, due to breakdowns in communication between diagnostic physicians and the ordering physicians, or between physicians and patients, or failures to follow up on symptoms or biopsies of a mass.

These specialists may opine on alleged errors in chemotherapy prescribing, mixing, and administration, as well as the use of supportive drugs / procedures, and drugs used to protect against toxicities, as well as issues of underprescribing and overprescribing for pain.

These physicians may testify on issues of alleged negligence in providing informed consent,breaches in the privacy of health information, patient consent to the release of information and electronic information.

With more recent advances in testing of genetic predispositions to cancers, these Medical Oncology experts may also provide opinions on counseling, or failure to counsel, patients on such testing.