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Cervical Cancer Patients Suffering Radiotherapy Injuries

EDM number 1429 in 1994-95, proposed by Janet Anderson on 18/07/1995.

That this House is appalled to learn of the plight of cervical cancer patients treated at Christie Hospital in Manchester who have suffered serious radiotherapy injuries; believes that these injuries were sustained during an experimental course of treatment on the Selectron machine of which patients were not properly informed, and which have resulted in patients incurring bowel, bladder and other damage which have made their lives intolerable; understand that some injuries are so traumatic that patients have tried to commit suicide, family relationships have been shattered and children have had to be fostered while their mothers are in hospital for long periods; is shocked at the lack of relevant information available before, during and after radiotherapy and that there is no counselling offered to patients or their families; considers it disgraceful that the Government is not prepared to afford the same recognition to those women who have been injured by radiation treatment for cervical cancer as they have to those similarly injured during radiation treatment for breast cancer; congratulates RAGE National on their continuing campaign to achieve proper recognition for their members who have been so injured; and calls upon the Secretary of State for Health to set up an immediate inquiry.

This motion has been signed by a total of 49 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Janet Anderson18/07/1995Rossendale & DarwenProposed
Greg Pope18/07/1995HyndburnSigned
Bridget Prentice18/07/1995Lewisham EastSigned
Helen Jackson18/07/1995Sheffield, HillsboroughSigned
Alice Mahon18/07/1995HalifaxSigned
Jean Corston18/07/1995Bristol EastSigned
Jamie Cann19/07/1995IpswichSigned
Harry Barnes19/07/1995North East DerbyshireSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe19/07/1995LeighSigned
Terry Davis19/07/1995Birmingham, Hodge HillSigned
Jim Dowd19/07/1995Lewisham WestSigned
Bill Etherington19/07/1995Sunderland NorthSigned
Norman Godman19/07/1995Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
Llin Golding19/07/1995Newcastle-under-LymeSigned
Gerry Sutcliffe19/07/1995Bradford SouthSigned
Jack Thompson19/07/1995WansbeckSigned
Audrey Wise19/07/1995PrestonSigned
William McKelvey19/07/1995Kilmarnock & LoudounSigned
John McAllion19/07/1995Dundee EastSigned
Lynne Jones19/07/1995Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
Eric Illsley19/07/1995Barnsley CentralSigned
Kevin Hughes19/07/1995Doncaster NorthSigned
Peter Hardy19/07/1995WentworthSigned
Martin Smyth19/07/1995Belfast SouthSigned
Ernie Ross19/07/1995Dundee WestSigned
Robert Parry19/07/1995Liverpool, RiversideSigned
Colin Pickthall19/07/1995West LancashireSigned
Bill Michie19/07/1995Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Joan Ruddock16/10/1995Lewisham, DeptfordSigned
Stan Orme16/10/1995Salford EastSigned
Ann Coffey16/10/1995StockportSigned
Dennis Turner17/10/1995Wolverhampton South EastSigned
Malcolm Chisholm17/10/1995Edinburgh LeithSigned
Jeremy Corbyn17/10/1995Islington NorthSigned
Helen Liddell18/10/1995Monklands EastSigned
Ken Livingstone18/10/1995Brent EastSigned
Jimmy Dunnachie18/10/1995Glasgow, PollokSigned
John Evans18/10/1995St Helens NorthSigned
Roger Godsiff18/10/1995Birmingham Small HeathSigned
Barry Jones19/10/1995Alyn & DeesideSigned
Win Griffiths19/10/1995BridgendSigned
Michael Clapham19/10/1995Barnsley West & PenistoneSigned
Ronnie Campbell19/10/1995Blyth ValleySigned
Elfyn Llwyd19/10/1995Meirionnydd Nant ConwySigned
Jimmy Hood19/10/1995ClydesdaleSigned
Tony Benn23/10/1995ChesterfieldSigned
Mike Hall26/10/1995Warrington SouthSigned
Roland Boyes01/11/1995Houghton and WashingtonSigned
Allan Rogers06/11/1995RhonddaSigned

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