Today is World Cancer Day and sadly we’re still witnessing the horrific repercussions of Ireland’s smear tests, where 206 women had developed cervical cancer after their smear tests showed up as false negatives.
With vanguard activist Vicky Phelan in the USA for an experimental treatment to rid her body of eleven tumours since her missed misdiagnosis of cervical cancer, yesterday Lynsey Bennet, a 32-year-old woman from co Longford with cervical cancer settled her case against the HSE in the hopes of giving her family some financial security.
Putting the case behind her, she said, “I can now focus on my own fight to stay alive for as long as I can.”