A man who with his now terminally ill wife is suing over alleged misinterpretation of her CervicalCheck smear test nine years ago has told the High Court their lives have been turned upside down since her cancer diagnosis. He said his wife told him of the cancer diagnosis during a phone call a few days before Christmas 2015. The woman, a mother of two in her forties, has Stage 4 cancer and has had palliative chemotherapy. The woman underwent a cervical smear test in September 2010 as part of the national cervical screening programme. It is claimed there was a failure to correctly report and diagnose the woman’s smear slide taken in 2010 and that her cancer was allowed to develop and spread unidentified, unmonitored and untreated until she was diagnosed with cervical cancer in December 2015.

Source: The Irish Times April 02, 2019 16:52 UTC