Competent screener could have interpreted smear taken from Ruth Morrisey as negative, court hears

A competent screener could have interpreted the smear taken in 2009 from Ruth Morrissey, who now has terminal cervical cancer, as negative, a US expert told the High Court.

Dr Robert Marshall Austin who was giving evidence on behalf of US laboratory, Quest Diagnostics told the court he believed as a matter of probability cancer was not there in 2009.