The daughter of a woman who died from cancer after receiving incorrect smear test results says she feels “robbed” of her mother. Grace Rattigan took to Facebook on Friday night to say her mother, Catherine Reck, was one of the 17 women who died from cancer due to a delayed diagnosis. The controversy over the CervicalCheck smear tests began more than two weeks ago after Limerick woman Vicky Phelan settled her action against a US laboratory that gave her an incorrect smear test result in 2011. Grace Rattigan took to Facebook on Friday night to say her mother, Catherine, was one of the 17 women who died from cancer due to a delayed diagnosis. “Almost a year after the incorrect smear test result was received.

Source: The Irish Times May 13, 2018 09:45 UTC