Our clients were the wife and two teenage children of the deceased, who died at age 60 from colon cancer. Colon cancer has a hereditary component. Our client’s husband came from a family where literally every member for the past two generations on his mother’s side was diagnosed with colorectal cancer or had multiple colonic [...]

Our clients were a 48 year old man and his wife.  We got an award of more than $1 million. The case was against a Kitsap County primary care doctor.  Our client, a 48-year-old man went to his doctor reporting persistent rectal bleeding.  The doctor performed a digital rectal exam, found no active bleeding, and [...]

All patients aged 50 or older should be offered colorectal cancer screening. Diligent colorectal cancer screening—ideally in the form of regular colonoscopies—should prevent most colorectal cancer. Colorectal cancers begin as growths called polyps. Polyps typically take many years to grow and develop into cancer. A carefully and prudently performed colonoscopy should identify any at-risk polyps [...]

Approximately 5-10% of all cancers are hereditary. For several decades, a constellation of factors known as the “Hallmarks of Hereditary Cancer” have been repeatedly described throughout the medical literature in hundreds of articles and textbooks. The following are uniformly considered to be “Hallmarks of Hereditary Cancer”: Early age of onset of cancer, usually 10 to [...]