Chemo underdosing bungle could have been avoided, inquest finds

"The coroner was unable to find that the [underdosing] necessarily caused relapses or shortening of life, but on the other hand he couldn't say that it didn't, so it was an open verdict on that," he said.

"It now relies on the government of the day and SA Health to join the dots to make sure that those people in administration who let us and the public down, don't do it again. "I'm in a wheelchair because I've had the first of two rather painful hip replacements from all the steroid damage from all the prolonged chemo," he said.Kym Higham, the son of Bronte Higham who died in 2016, said the findings were not surprising, but it did bring some closure.

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