Rosaline O’Brien, from Cappamore, Co Limerick, knew nothing about cancer trials until she was diagnosed with breast cancer in January 2013.

A campaign encouraging people with cancer to ask their doctor about cancer trials has launched.

A doctor subject to a Medical Council inquiry was “always going to prayer” and “used his religion not to behave properly”, a colleague said.

A consultant oncologist has told how she felt threatened by a doctor under her supervision on two separate occasions when she sought to discuss the junior registrar’s medical practices at the Midwestern Cancer Centre at University Hospital Limerick.