McManus calls for fundamental review of cancer test system

LABOUR’S Liz McManus has called for a fundamental review of how breast cancer tests are processed after it emerged a second botched test resulted in a woman not being treated for the condition for a year-and-a-half.

Ms McManus, who yesterday described the second case as an “alarming development”, said it was even more serious than that involving Tipperary mother-of-three Rebecca O’Malley, who went public earlier this year about her misdiagnosis.

In the latest case, a 51-year-old woman, also from Co Tipperary, was wrongly given the all-clear twice.