Report on cancer misdiagnoses due next week

A REPORT investigating the circumstances that led to a woman with breast cancer being wrongly given the all-clear is due for publication on Monday.

The report, which also looked at the treatment of 24 other breast cancer patients, is being considered by the board of the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) prior to publication.

The HIQA was commissioned to compile the report in May by Health Service Executive (HSE) chief Prof Brendan Drumm, after it emerged Tipperary woman Rebecca O’Malley, 41, had to have a mastectomy following a 14-month delay in diagnosing the cancer.