Investigation begins into suspected mistaken cancer diagnosis

A BIG investigation was under way last night into another suspected bungled cancer diagnosis similar to that of Rebecca O’Malley.

The Mid-Western Regional Hospital is checking the medical records of a woman who had to have a cancerous breast partially removed, two years after she was given the all-clear by the hospital.

Breda Flanagan said when she had a mastectomy in 2005, she was told by the hospital that an abnormality had shown up in a previous mammogram carried out in 2003. Ms Flanagan, who lives at Ballina near Killaloe, is a neighbour of Rebecca O’Malley whose cancer was missed in tests carried out at Cork University Hospital.