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Canadian cancer official quits amid testing scandal
Posted Jul 10th 2007 5:03PM by Brian White
Filed under: All Cancers, Politics
Scandal has come to Canada's cancer industry, as the chief of Newfoundland's largest health board resigned on Monday amid many allegations of incompetence (and who knows what else) related to a recent breast cancer test scandal out of his company, Eastern Health.
George Tilley now faces class-action lawsuits from individuals that apparently received inaccurate breast cancer testing results.
Eastern Health was accused of not fully disclosing results of breast cancer testing which
may have led to 36 deaths and possibly more, although those who died have not been directly connected to breast cancer as a cause -- yet.
Tags: canadian cancer official, CanadianCancerOfficial, cancer politics, cancer scandal, CancerPolitics, CancerScandal
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1. No one should scam the sick, but not all false results are intentional (here is an article about it - http://www.thenewsroom.com/details/517614/Health?c_id=wom=kg-jlt ) Health care professionals generally are trying to help people, and it really burns me when a few bad apples sully public trust. Kate from the womens health desk at thenewsroom.com
Posted at 1:29PM on Jul 28th 2007 by Kate