Cancer misdiagnoses - Quality care for patients is essential

The discovery of two more misdiagnoses among the more than 3,000 mammograms re-examined at the Midlands Hospital in Portlaoise highlights the importance of the new National Cancer Control Programme.

The latest cases mean that a total of nine women were wrongly diagnosed as being clear of cancer.

The issue of these misdiagnoses is being investigated, but Dr James Reilly, the Fine Gael spokesman on health, has already raised the issue in the Dáil of a possible conflict of interest in that investigation.