CervicalCheck is a political football being kicked to death by politicians

I AM happy that the 209 women whose cervical cancer was not caught during screening are to be offered free medical treatment, free counselling and an ex-gratia payment of €2,000.
I just wonder what sets them apart — except for their participation in Gabriel Scally’s scoping review — from the thousands of other people in this country undergoing cancer treatment, a subset of the 167,700 people who have or have had cancer?