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In 2011, Vicky Phelan, a mother of two children from Annacotty, County Limerick, underwent a smear test for cervical cancer. Although her test showed no abnormalities, she was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2014. An internal CervicalCheck review found the original result to be incorrect, but Phelan was not informed of this fact until 2017.
Two senior medics involved in Northern Ireland's cervical screening programme, have resigned over their concerns about the service, the BBC has learned. In their resignation letter, seen by BBC ...
CervicalCheck is the national cervical screening programme. [14] It was launched in September 2008 as the public name of the National Cancer Screening Service. [15] In May 2008, then chief executive officer Tony O'Brien dismissed claims that misdiagnoses would result from the use of US-based lab Quest Diagnostics.
Phelan wrote her biography, Overcoming which won the An Post Irish Book of the Year award in 2019 as well as being the RTÉ Radio 1 Listeners’ Choice Award for that year. [3] In 2022, a documentary about Phelan entitled Vicky was released in Irish cinemas.
Eight women whose smear tests were misread by screeners went on to develop cancer, a major review into cervical screening at the Southern Health Trust has found. A further 11 women's slides were ...
Holohan also writes about his time as Chief Medical Officer, covering various public events, including Swine Flu, Cervical Check Audit, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Reviewing the book for the Irish Independent, Danielle Barron wrote: "this is a book about grief as much as it is a book about being one of the most polarising characters in public ...
7 May – CervicalCheck cancer scandal: A number of individuals affected by the cervical cancer tests scandal revealed that they were in the process of suing the HSE, a cervical screening laboratory and a number of doctors. [84] 8 May - Ryan O'Shaughnessy takes Ireland to its first Eurovision final since 2013, with the song "Together".
This test, which also involves collecting cells from the cervix, checks for human papillomavirus (HPV), which is the most common sexually transmitted infection, according to the CDC. Some forms of ...