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Australian Court Orders Huge Compensation to Woman Misled by Breast Screening Clinic
Christine O’Gorman is not expected to live beyond the end of the year after cancer in her left breast spread to her lungs and brain.
The 57-year-old from Moorebank had her breast removed, has undergone multiple rounds of chemotherapy and radiation, and is now taking painkillers for her symptoms.
In the New South Wales Supreme Court Wednesday, Justin Clifton Hoeben awarded Ms O’Gorman $405,990 in damages and costs after she sued Sydney South West Area Health Service, which operates BreastScreen.
"(Ms O’Gorman) realises and is trying to come to terms with the fact that there is no hope of a cure and that she must live her life as best as she can between now and the end of December when medical opinion assesses that she will die," Justin Hoeben said in his judgment.
"Her final weeks will involve considerable pain and suffering."
Ms O’Gorman had undergone routine mammograms every two years from 1994 at BreastScreen – a free service funded by the Commonwealth and NSW Governments.
Her 2002 and 2004 results detected a mass in her left breast, which reviewing doctors deemed had no suspicious features and had not increased in size between screenings.
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