Family Awarded $4.2 Million In Lawsuit Over Cancer Diagnosis

BILLERICA, Mass. — A jury has awarded a Massachusetts family $4.2 million in connection with the father who died after receiving a late kidney cancer diagnosis.The Lowell Sun reports the jury found 54-year-old Neil Senna's primary care physician negligent in failing to notify him of a symptom that could have pointed to an earlier cancer diagnosis.The attorney who represented the Senna family in their medical malpractice lawsuit says Neil Senna should have seen a specialist when blood was found in his urine in 2009.

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