Woman to sue Cork hospital over cancer diagnosis delay

A 49-YEAR-OLD woman is to sue the Bon Secours Hospital in Cork for what she claims was a delayed diagnosis of bowel cancer.

Lawyers for the mother-of-two went before the High Court yesterday in an effort to speed up the hearing of her case as “her prognosis was poor”.

The woman in question claims that despite having had tests carried out by the hospital in October 2006, her diagnosis of bowel cancer with secondary liver cancer was not made until three years later.