US healthcare provider to probe smear test scandal lab

The lab at the centre of Ireland’s cervical cancer crisis is being reviewed by a large healthcare provider in the United States.

Baylor College of Medicine, a designated cancer centre in Texas, confirmed it had initiated a review of the accuracy of Pap smears at Clinical Pathology Laboratories (CPL).

Clinical Pathology Laboratories is the same lab that processed the sample from Vicky Phelan.

It settled Phelan’s legal action for €2.5 million after it ...