Cancer misdiagnoses ‘caused by breakdown in best practice’

IT IS now “crystal clear” that all the mistakes made in diagnosing breast cancer were due to an absolute breakdown of best practice, Europa Donna Ireland said yesterday.

“Medical science has known for the last 10 years that triple assessment was the best way to diagnose and treat breast cancer,” said Christine Murphy-Whyte, chair of Europa Donna Ireland.

She urged everyone in the health service to get behind National Cancer Control Programme director Professor Tom Keane and work to make breast cancer services the best that they could be.