The Government is monitoring concerns that the future of breast cancer screening could be at risk over legal actions and say that medical litigation in Ireland is currently being reviewed. The director of BreastCheck has called for a mediation forum to address false negative test concerns and possible legal actions, after 15 legal letters were received in recent weeks in the wake of the cervical cancer screening controversy. There is growing concern that there may now be cases of breast cancer diagnosis that were missed by screening. Prof Hill has said if 100 women with breast cancer underwent a mammogram, the disease would not show in 10 of them. Nonetheless, screening picks “up the vast majority” of breast cancer cases, she told TDs and senators.

Source: Irish Examiner May 24, 2018 23:03 UTC