Cancer crisis report examined

ONE of the reports on the cancer screening crisis at Portlaoise General Hospital will be considered by the board of the Health Service Executive (HSE) today.

Thu, 28 Feb, 2008 - 00:00

Paul O’Brien, Political Correspondent

The hospital wrongly gave nine women the all-clear for breast cancer.

Three reports, subsequently ordered, have not yet been published.

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