Woman with cervical cancer sues for damages at the High Court

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A woman who claims she suffered a delay in a cervical cancer diagnosis and is now terminally ill has sued for damages in theThe 44-year-old woman, who last year was given two years to live, is also claiming aggravated damages in relation to an alleged failure to inform her of an audit review of her CervicalCheck smear test for five years.said she wants aggravated damages for the “egregious delay in disclosure”.

“ He said he was sorry but why hold that information without telling me? Nobody told me, I felt angry, I should have been told.”“My future is not going to be very long. I don’t plan for anything in the future.” It is claimed delay in diagnosing her cancer has resulted in progression of the lesion to an invasive carcinoma with adverse features by December 2012. It is further claimed there was failure to arrange appropriate scanning when the woman presented with bleeding in August 2013 and December 2015.

 

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