Science news articles about 'cancer tests'

The current head of Eastern Health has testified she still does not know exactly what caused a St. John's lab to produce hundreds of erroneous breast cancer test results.

A former Newfoundland and Labrador deputy health minister has taken responsibility for not sharing important information about flawed cancer tests with a minister.

A former senior civil servant says the Newfoundland and Labrador government was enveloped in confusion in the days following the May 2007 revelations of mishandled breast cancer testing.

The woman who ran Eastern Health's communications department during much of the breast cancer testing crisis has testified she never did anything to misrepresent the flawed tests.

A physician who flagged serious problems at a St. John's pathology lab in 2003 was not consulted two years later, when Eastern Health realized its breast cancer testing was flawed.

... Labrador Premier Danny Williams did not intervene into a broadening cancer testing crisis for months because staff trusted a health authority to manage it properly, an inquiry was ...

Relations between Eastern Health and the provincial government deteriorated rapidly in May 2007 amid reports of bungled cancer tests, an inquiry has been told.

Cancer patients from the French islands of St-Pierre-Miquelon, off the south coast of Newfoundland, say they were the last to know about breast cancer testing mistakes in the labs of Eastern Health.

A physician has told a judicial inquiry she received little help from superiors in trying to investigate flawed cancer tests in 2005.

An ovarian cancer test prompts questions on regulation and risk, and experts worry it may mean unneeded surgery.

Botched breast cancer tests were a consequence of years of government funding cuts in Newfoundland and Labrador, a pathologist said Monday.

Patients undergoing breast cancer tests can trust their results, officials at the Dr. Evertt Chalmers Hospital in Fredericton said Wednesday.

Premier Danny Williams testified Tuesday that officials in his office were initially led to believe there was no pressing emergency over hundreds of flawed breast cancer tests.

A St. John's lawyer said Tuesday that a former Ontario judge has agreed to mediate in a class action lawsuit over hundreds of flawed breast cancer tests.

... the-counter prostate cancer test kit could be coming to a pharmacy near you, thanks to the collaborative work ... University of Central Florida chemist and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando researchers. ...