A woman who is gravely ill with ovarian cancer has lost her High Court action for damages over an alleged delay in her diagnosis.
Mr Justice David Keane, who dismissed the woman’s case on Friday, was told that the woman’s condition is “critically grave” and expressed his sympathy to her husband, who was in court, and her family. He said it was a “very sad, sad situation”. At issue in the case was an MRI scan that the woman had in June 2016 which was reported as normal. The woman claimed the scan showed features of a particular form of ovarian cancer which were not reported upon due to negligence.
He found there was no failure of care by the radiologist. The radiologist did not deviate from any general or approved practice or follow any general or approved practice that was subject to an obvious inherent defect, the judge found.