The surviving adult children of this 75-year-old mother believed that her lung cancer should have been diagnosed and treated while it was still curable. Investigation and litigation by our firm discovered that an early-stage and treatable lung cancer was identified on an x-ray performed a year earlier. Along with our team of expert physicians, we established that certain standards of practice were violated by the hospital’s physicians, leading to the prolonged delay in diagnosis and extensive spread of the cancer, causing an untimely death.