Report on cancer diagnosis error likely next month

A REPORT on the circumstances that led to a woman with breast cancer being wrongly given the all-clear is expected to be published next month.

Shortly before Christmas the Health Information and Quality Authority, which is carrying out the investigation, announced that publication of the report was being postponed because new information had come to light.

The authority was commissioned to compile the report in May by Health Service Executive 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.