Patient A: I am only starting to think about future

A WOMAN, whose breast cancer treatment was delayed for 18 months after she was wrongly given the all-clear three times, is only now beginning to think about her future.

Although the 52-year-old Tipperary woman had developed physical evidence of the disease and complained about it, tests continued to be misread.

The disease was eventually confirmed in March 2007 when the woman’s consultant at Barringtons Hospital in Limerick refused to accept a third negative diagnosis.