Medics were guilty of gross failures in the care of a nurse who was killed by cervical cancer who should have had a 99 per cent chance of survival, a coroner ruled. The 49-year-old mother of two died in February last year after being given the all-clear from a smear test and a later biopsy. How did medics miss the cervical cancer? On examining Mrs O'Connor, they immediately suspected cervical cancer, which was later confirmed. 'I would have expected the majority of women with Stage 1B cervical cancer to have survived for over five years,' he told the court.

Source: Daily Mail January 30, 2020 16:33 UTC