A man whose wife is terminally ill with cancer, and who has sued over alleged misinterpretation of her CervicalCheck smear test nine years ago, has told the High Court his family feel “let down”. After the CervicalCheck controversy broke last year, he thought they would get help and be “looked after”, the man said. The court has heard that, on September 17th, 2010, the woman underwent a cervical smear test as part of the national cervical screening programme. It is claimed there was failure to correctly report and diagnose a misinterpretation of the woman’s smear slide taken in 2010. Her cancer, it is alleged, was allowed to develop and spread unidentified, unmonitored and untreated until she was diagnosed with cervical cancer in December 2015.The claims are denied.

Source: The Irish Times April 03, 2019 17:26 UTC