A teenager given a potentially fatal overdose of radiation during treatment for a brain tumour is to sue her local health board, it was confirmed yesterday.
Lisa Norris, 15, has been told that she could be dead within five years after being subjected to repeated overdoses of radiation during cancer treatment at the Beatson Oncology Centre in Glasgow, Britain’s second-largest specialist cancer centre.
The schoolgirl, from Girvan, Ayrshire, has developed sores on her neck and ears and has to take cold showers to cool down. Doctors have told her that the overdoses could leave her paralysed or brain damaged or, at the very worst, dead by the time she is 20.
Her family has hired one of Scotland’s leading litigation lawyers to prepare a claim against NHS Greater Glasgow that could run into millions of pounds. Cameron Fyfe, a partner at Ross Harper solicitors in Glasgow, confirmed: “We have been instructed to proceed with a claim for damages against Greater Glasgow Health Board.”
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NHS Greater Glasgow emphasised that no other patient treatments were compromised.