A 56-year-old woman died of lung cancer, which was discovered on autopsy. The tumor was not found by the doctors during the three months she traveled through the clinics.

During all this time they told him that he suffered from lumbago (lumbar pain) and prescribed painkillers and anti-inflammatories.

The events took place between July and September 2015 in Galicia, Spain. On Tuesday, April 18, 2023, Spanish media, such as 20 Minutes, reported that the Galician health service (Sergas) “must reimburse the family of the deceased up to 20,000 euros”, about $22,000.

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They saw no lung cancer

That medium reported that on Monday, April 17, the Supreme Court of Xustiza in Galicia convicted the Servizo Galego de Saúde for the death of the 56-year-old woman, “whom no one had been diagnosed with lung cancer”.

When citing La Voz de Galicia, they say that the woman first went to her doctor. Seeing no improvement, he went for other opinions and resorted, among other health centers, “to the emergency department of the University Hospital Complex of Vigo”.

There, they took an X-ray of the spine that showed “no bone lesions, but others of a different type, inconclusive,” according to local media. It is assured that “no other X-ray was taken after this test.”

The Galician outlet points out that the woman even went to the traumatologist and was diagnosed with disc disease. The medicines could also be adjusted

The anguished woman saw her days reduced to fighting the pain. In September 2015 he could no longer resist and died at home.

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there were metastases

When performing the autopsy, forensics found “a cancer in the lung with metastases in various organs.”

It is not specified whether the lower back pain, which the woman suffered so much, was a result of the presence of the tumor.

It has been revealed that the woman had been smoking between 10 and 20 cigarettes a day for 30 years, although the insurer states they could not be related

At this point, the court finds that “sufficient evidence has not been provided”. In this regard, La Voz de Galicia reported: The Supreme Court recalls that “less than two months have passed” since the first time the woman went to the doctor for lower back pain and her death.

“The expectations I had, although the existence of the tumor had been established in the month of July, were very low,” the judges said.