# cervical-cancer - Wednesday 28 August, 2019
A new remuneration policy will be announced next month.
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# cervical-cancer - Tuesday 27 August, 2019
Harris is considering advice from the Attorney General on mandatory vaccination.
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# cervical-cancer - Monday 12 August, 2019
Some 99% of cervical cancers are caused by HPV.
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# cervical-cancer - Sunday 11 August, 2019
Over 500 cases of cancer associated with the HPV infection are diagnosed every year in Ireland.
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# cervical-cancer - Wednesday 7 August, 2019
The case of Sharon – who waited months to receive her results – was outlined in a rapid review of CervicalCheck yesterday.
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# cervical-cancer - Friday 26 July, 2019
The government has said the appeal does not relate to the €2.1 million in damages and that the Morrisseys will retain that irrespective of the outcome.
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# cervical-cancer - Tuesday 16 July, 2019
Meanwhile, the HSE says that 52 of the women who were re-tested were found to have HPV.
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# cervical-cancer - Sunday 14 July, 2019
One women whose GP noticed a visual abnormality in her cervix was told she could be waiting more than six months.
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# cervical-cancer - Thursday 4 July, 2019
Sinn Féin TD Louise O’Reilly described the situation as “screening on the cheap”.
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# cervical-cancer - Monday 17 June, 2019
The State Claims Agency said its appeal will not relate to the decision on the award of damages.
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# cervical-cancer - Saturday 4 May, 2019
Yesterday Ruth Morrissey said she hopes the decision in her case will be a positive thing for other women affected by the scandal.
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# cervical-cancer - Wednesday 27 March, 2019
Laura Brennan will be laid to rest following the service in Ennis Cathedral this afternoon.
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# cervical-cancer - Thursday 21 March, 2019
The HPV vaccine campaigner passed away this week.
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The 26 year-old died of cancer in Limerick yesterday.
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# cervical-cancer - Wednesday 20 March, 2019
Brennan was diagnosed with cervical cancer at the age of 24.
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# cervical-cancer - Wednesday 20 February, 2019
Phelan said today that she has been “very ill” over the past couple of weeks.
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The disease claims the lives of more than 300,000 women every year.
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# cervical-cancer - Wednesday 13 February, 2019
Health Minister Simon Harris promised it would be introduced in September last year. This was then pushed out to January 2019.
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# cervical-cancer - Friday 8 February, 2019
The HSE has been aware of this error since November but it was only made public two weeks ago.
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# cervical-cancer - Thursday 24 January, 2019
The smear-test samples expired after there was a delay in transferring the samples to a slide within the six-week timeframe.
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# cervical-cancer - Wednesday 23 January, 2019
Simon Harris had been warned on numerous occasions that his announcement of free repeat smear tests was “dangerous” .
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# cervical-cancer - Saturday 19 January, 2019
Orla Church was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2015.
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# cervical-cancer - Wednesday 2 January, 2019
Stephen Teap said he went public with his story this year so he can tell his boys when they grow up that he did everything he could.
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# cervical-cancer - Sunday 30 December, 2018
19 women wrote to the then-Minister for Women’s Affairs and Family Law about the issue, State Papers reveal.
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# cervical-cancer - Tuesday 18 December, 2018
The 35-year-old Cork woman died of cancer in July last year.
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# cervical-cancer - Friday 7 December, 2018
Hiqa has also recommended switching to a different vaccination – one that protects against an additional five types of HPV.
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# cervical-cancer - Wednesday 5 December, 2018
Ireland owes it to these women, Labour’s Alan Kelly said.
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# cervical-cancer - Tuesday 27 November, 2018
She was given a terminal diagnosis at the start of this year and Phelan said the drug Pembro is allowing her to live with the disease.
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# cervical-cancer - Monday 12 November, 2018
‘Open disclosure’ made headlines in recent months due to the CervicalCheck controversy.
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# cervical-cancer - Sunday 4 November, 2018
The Health Minister has been defended by Charlie Flanagan, who said Tony O’Brien had “a pretty rapid fall from grace”.
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# cervical-cancer - Tuesday 16 October, 2018
In his report, Justice Meenan recognises the “courage and fortitude” of the woman affected and their families.
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# cervical-cancer - Wednesday 10 October, 2018
Dr Gabriel Scally told an Oireachtas Committee that an initial review to identify women involved was flawed.
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# cervical-cancer - Tuesday 18 September, 2018
The HSE launched a vaccine information campaign today, confirming two in three women are now being inoculated against the HPV virus.
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The mother-of-one has said smear tests carried out in 2009 and 2012 were wrongly reported as normal.
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# cervical-cancer - Wednesday 12 September, 2018
He also said how the families of the women affected were eventually told about the audit was “damaging, hurtful and offensive”.
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# cervical-cancer - Tuesday 11 September, 2018
The review has concluded a commission of investigation does not need to be established.
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# cervical-cancer - Friday 7 September, 2018
MInister for Health Simon Harris will meet with the author of the report Dr Scally next week.
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# cervical-cancer - Monday 3 September, 2018
The desire to protect and care for your child is indescribable, writes Eric Nolan. And that means doing your best to keep them safe.
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# cervical-cancer - Thursday 26 July, 2018
Ruth Morrissey has taken a case against the HSE along with her husband, Paul, claiming smear tests were incorrectly reported.
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# cervical-cancer - Tuesday 24 July, 2018
The government is in favour of extending the free HPV vaccine scheme to school boys.
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