Woman (40) with terminal cancer receives apology over reporting of smear slide

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Woman (40) with terminal cancer receives apology over reporting of smear slide
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HSE and hospital apologises for ‘devastating consequences’ on woman who has six to 18 months to live

Counsel said that while obtaining the apology is of “real value” for the woman, whose cancer returned last November, it is distressing for her and her husband that the apology came just before the opening of her High Court case.

The letter was signed by the general manager of St Luke’s Radiation Oncology Network, Jacqueline Robinson. The pre-cancer in 2004, he said, should have been detected and, if it had, it would have been excised and “she would have been cured forever”.

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