Woman with terminal cervical cancer settles case against HSE and US laboratory

It was claimed her cancer had been allegedly allowed to develop and spread unidentified, unmonitored and untreated until she was ultimately diagnosed following her attendance at a hospital emergency department in late 2024

It was claimed had any of the five smear tests been correctly reported, there would have been a different approach to her care and she would have been advised to undergo a hysterectomy. File pictture

A 54-year-old woman who has terminal cervical cancer has settled a High Court action against the HSE and a US laboratory over the alleged misinterpretation of smear tests.

The woman who cannot be identified by order of the court, the High Court heard, has incurable Stage Four cervical cancer. The action related to five smear tests taken between 2011 and 2018.