Retired teacher settles claim against BreastCheck

A woman who claimed she would not have had to have chemotherapy or a right-side mastectomy if a correct diagnosis had been made when she went for a BreastCheck mammogram has settled her High Court action.

Retired teacher Eileen Fennessy had sued the HSE over an alleged failure to diagnose breast cancer in a 2011 mammogram, and an alleged delay in diagnosis.

Her counsel, Pat Treacy, had told the High Court that Ms Fennessy’s GP found a large mass in her right breast in October 2012 and referred her for an ultrasound and a biopsy.