A jury found that three physicians were not negligent in their treatment of a woman who claimed they failed to detect lobular breast cancer.

Leigh Bostwick, then 45, began to undergo treatment for various complaints with surgeon Ramesh Patel. She claimed the next year he failed to do a biopsy of a mass in her left breast. She claimed radiologist Michael Sorbello failed to properly interpret the mass on two ultrasounds. She claimed plastic surgeon Robert Bashore failed to get a surgical clearance and a biopsy before he performed a breast implant exchange near her subsequently diagnosed cancer.

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