Woman dies after cervical cancer screening error
Daily Record|June 25, 2021
430 to get test after being excluded
PAUL HUTCHEON
Woman dies after cervical cancer screening error

A WOMAN died after being “incorrectly excluded” from cervical cancer screening, the Scottish Government has revealed.

Women’s Health Minister Maree Todd told MSPs that an audit had discovered a “very small number of women” had developed cervical cancer after being “wrongly excluded” from the screening programme following a hysterectomy.

She added: “I am extremely sorry to say that one of those women has died.”

Women should still have been screened if part of their cervix was not fully removed.

This story is from the June 25, 2021 edition of Daily Record.

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