Survey Finds Doctors Underestimate Cancer Misdiagnosis Rates

Cancer misdiagnosis rates are higher than many doctors realize, according to a recent survey  by Best Doctors and the National Coalition on Health Care. The joint survey found that 60.5 percent of doctors participating estimated that cancer misdiagnosis occurs 0-10 percent of the time; another 33 percent thought it happened 10-20 percent of the time. However, other studies have put the rate of cancer misdiagnosis as between 15 percent to 28 percent, according to The American Journal of Medicine