A doctor who admitted the manslaughter of a teenage cancer sufferer by mistakenly ordering a junior colleague to administer a fatal injection into his spine was today sentenced to 18 months imprisonment.

A coroner today recorded a verdict of accidental death in the case of a teenager who died after a powerful cancer treatment drug was injected into his spine instead of a vein.

A hospital chief executive has apologised over a teenager's death, after doctors mistakenly injected an anti-cancer drug into the patient's spine.

A teenager left seriously ill when doctors mistakenly injected an anti-cancer drug into his spine has died.