# Sydney GP negligence ruling finds bowel cancer delay cost patient nearly five years of life

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/personal-trainer-and-dad-of-one-wins-case-against-doctor-who-diagnosed-his-bowel-cancer-as-haemorrhoids-as-judge-finds-delays-cost-him-years-of-life/
- Published: 2026-10-25T13:58:56+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-25T14:07:39+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15884285/bowel-cancer-Sydney-Peterkin-lawsuit-doctor-tadros.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: Health, Medicine, World

## Key points

- A judge found a GP’s failure to investigate symptoms delayed Peterkin’s cancer diagnosis.
- The delay was estimated to have cost him about 4.75 years of life expectancy.
- The court also found Peterkin’s actions contributed to the delay.

## Summary

Ross Peterkin, a Sydney personal trainer and father, won a negligence case against GP Abram Tadros after the NSW Supreme Court found his bowel cancer should have been investigated sooner. The judge ruled that the doctor’s focus on haemorrhoids, despite Peterkin’s bleeding and other symptoms, delayed diagnosis and shortened his expected life by nearly five years.

The court found Peterkin was first diagnosed with stage 3 bowel cancer in May 2024, after symptoms had been recorded in August 2022. It said proper questioning and referral would probably have led to diagnosis by February 2023, but also found Peterkin contributed to the delay by not raising ongoing symptoms at later visits and waiting 137 days to act on a specialist referral. The judge estimated his life expectancy fell from about February 2032 to mid-2027.

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