Woman grateful 'for rest of her life' to dentist who insisted she go for cancer tests

A woman has said she will be grateful for the rest of her life to a dentist who insisted she go for further tests, which found she had leukaemia.

Akvile Matinkenaite said Dr Karl Cassidy had saved her life by insisting she went for urgent further medical investigation which resulted in the timely diagnosis and successful treatment of Acute Myeloid Leukemia.