Woman died of cancer after two BreastCheck all-clears

Kay O’Keeffe, a grandmother of two, was 63 years of age when she died of breast cancer six years ago.

The husband of a woman who died from breast cancer after getting the all-clear in two mammograms has said it is “hard to understand” the failure to detect the abnormalities.

The National Screening Service has apologised to the husband and family of a Tipperary woman who died of breast cancer after abnormalities in her BreastCheck mammograms were not detected in 2011 and 2013.