This Mother Was Told Twice She Was in the Clear As Cancer Ravaged Her Body. Now She Wants Pounds 300,000 Compensation ; Woman's Tumour Grew to the Size of a Grapefruit and She Was a Week From Death

Evening Standard - London › June 28, 2005

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A MOTHER who developed cervical cancer despite twice being assured her smear test results were normal has launched a legal battle for Pounds 300,000 in compensation.

Kate Farmer's cancer was left untreated for more than two years because the two test results were wrong.

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This Mother Was Told Twice She Was in the Clear As Cancer Ravaged Her Body. Now She Wants Pounds 300,000 Compensation ; Woman's Tumour Grew to the Size of a Grapefruit and She Was a Week From Death

By the time her cancer was detected she had a tumour the size of a grapefruit and had to endure surgery and weeks of chemotherapy an...

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