You went for a screening mammogram at an imaging center in Garden City because you never skip it. The report came back clean, and you moved on with your life. Two years later, a lump appeared — and the diagnosis was stage IV breast cancer, from the same tumor doctors now admit was visible on that earlier film. A delayed cancer diagnosis doesn't just change your treatment. It changes your odds of surviving at all. For decades, New York law made things worse by starting the law

In 2023, you had a chest X-ray at a Manhattan hospital because of a nagging cough that wouldn't quit. The radiologist's report mentioned a "small nodule," but nobody called you, nobody ordered a follow-up CT scan, and your primary doctor chalked it up to bronchitis. Three years later, you're sitting in an oncologist's office hearing the words "stage IV." Under New York's old malpractice rules, your lawsuit might have been dead before you even knew you were sick. Lavern's Law