Review of up to 3,000 cancer patients’ tests

Up to 3,000 women who were diagnosed with cervical cancer over the last decade will have their tests audited and reviewed by the end of May.

The review will try to determine whether there were false negative results in original tests and whether cases should, in fact, have been reported differently to women.

There were shock revelations from the Health Minister Simon Harris this week that an extra 1,500 women had not had their cancer tests reviewed. This is on top of the estimated 1,482 cancer cases where reviews were done.