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.
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