A National WestlawNext Database Analysis of Malpractice Litigation in Radiation Oncology.

Arpan V Prabhu Tony S Quang Raymond Funahashi Raghav Gupta Saiaditya Badeti Nimer Adeeb Justin M Moore Nitin Agarwal Dwight E Heron Sushil Beriwal

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and are medical students and is a resident, all at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pennsylvania. is an Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, University of Washington School of Medicine, and University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, Washington. and are medical students at Rutgers New Jersey and Otolaryngology 2, Newark, New Jersey. is a resident, Department of Neurosurgery, Louisiana State University, Shreveport, Louisiana. is a Clinical Instructor, Department of Neurological Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California. is Professor and Vice Chairman of Clinical Affairs, Department of Radiation Oncology and Otolaryngology; and is a Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, both at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center and University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Published: February 2018

Although litigation involving radiation oncologists was infrequent and most verdicts were in favor of defendants, many cases resulted from claims of excessive radiation, unnecessary radiation, and a failure to refer and/or order appropriate tests.

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