Update 8am: A Dublin-based blogger has shared the story of her mother Catherine Reck who is one of the 17 women who have died of cervical cancer despite receiving a negative smear test result. 209 women with cervical cancer had information withheld from them in relation to false negative smear test results, of which 17 have died. Grace says her mam was told "there and then that they were highly confident it was Cervical Cancer and would do a Biopsy which confirmed Catherine had Stage 3 Cervical Cancer and so our nightmare began". [/quote]You can read the full post here:Digital DeskEarlier: Top health officials face PAC grillingBy Elaine LoughlinUpdate 7.53am: Senior health officials are to be grilled to establish who knew what and when about damning CervicalCheck memos. Julie was 36 years old when she died of cervical cancer in Marymount Hospice in April 2017.

Source: Evening echo May 14, 2018 06:56 UTC