'Vicky Phelan called herself a “stubborn bitch”. But the tenacity of the Irish cervical cancer campaigner, who has died aged 48, exposed one of the most shocking medical scandals in the country’s history.

Phelan highlighted the plight of more than 200 women like herself who were falsely told their cervical smear tests were normal and only learned years later — in her case, when she was already terminally ill — that the mistake had been discovered, but kept secret.'

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