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Government promises to act on CervicalCheck screening following scathing attack from Kilkenny campaigner Vicky

By Kilkenny Now 27th July 2020 Post a comment

The Government has promised to improve CervicalCheck Screening and get a tribunal into the scandal up and running, following a scathing attack over the weekend from Kilkenny’s cancer campaigner, Vicky Phelan. In an article in the Sunday Independent, Ms Phelan said she wanted “action, change and accountability” over the CervicalCheck scandal. Writing the piece in […]

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CervicalCheck scandal: 12 women given incorrect test results have since died

By Kilkenny Now 3rd December 2019 0

The controversial CervicalCheck programme missed opportunities to prevent or diagnose cancer earlier in 159 women, 12 of whom have since died, an independent review has found. The report by the UK Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) found that one-in-three of the women who were tested received the wrong smear results. In May 2018 […]

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Hero cancer campaigner Vicky Phelan shuts down Twitter account following backlash

By Kilkenny Now 28th November 2019 0

Hero cancer campaigner, Vicky Phelan, has shut down her Twitter account following online criticism she suffered on Wednesday night. The terminally ill mother of two from Mooncoin, took the decision after coming under attack from an author and academic, who accused her of spreading misinformation about a treatment she undertakes in her battle with cancer. […]

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‘We’ve grown apart’ – hero cancer campaigner Vicky Phelan reveals her marriage has broken up

By Kilkenny Now 19th October 2019 0

HERO cervical cancer campaigner Vicky Phelan has revealed her marriage has broken-up, but says she is still happily living with her husband. The Kilkenny mother-of-two, who played a pivotal role in uncovering the CervicalCheck scandal last year, says she is still “great friends” with her husband Jim. The Mooncoin woman said they decided to stay […]

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A life less ordinary: brave Kilkenny campaigner Vicky’s memoirs hit the shelves

By Kilkenny Now 12th September 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY KILKENNY’S inspirational cervical cancer campaigner Vicky Phelan will see her first book go on sale today. ‘Overcoming’ is the moving memoir from the Mooncoin mother-of-two who rose to national prominence when she uncovered how hundreds of cervical smear tests had been misread. The 45-year-old was only diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2017, […]

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‘It’s for people I’m doing this, not awards’ – hero Kilkenny campaigner Vicky

By Kilkenny Now 26th April 2019 0

HERO campaigner Vicky Phelan has slammed ongoing delays in the cervical cancer screening process as “unacceptable”. The Kilkenny mother-of-two spoke out a year after she was awarded €2.5m in a High Court action over the alleged misreading of her cervical cancer smear. The Mooocoin woman was recently forced to take a step back from campaigning […]

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Kilkenny women among 4,300 given retests after HPV screening scare will have results soon

By Kilkenny Now 18th February 2019 Post a comment

KILKENNY women among the 4,300 who are being offered retests by CervicalCheck arising out of revelations on HPV screening in one of its labs will get their results within four weeks, health authorities have confirmed. The women were contacted after it emerged Quest Diagnostics, the US-based laboratory carrying out cervical screening, was using the wrong […]