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.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Janet Anderson	18/07/1995	Rossendale & Darwen		Proposed
Jean Corston	18/07/1995	Bristol East		Signed
Alice Mahon	18/07/1995	Halifax		Signed
Helen Jackson	18/07/1995	Sheffield, Hillsborough		Signed
Bridget Prentice	18/07/1995	Lewisham East		Signed
Greg Pope	18/07/1995	Hyndburn		Signed
Lawrence Cunliffe	19/07/1995	Leigh		Signed
Terry Davis	19/07/1995	Birmingham, Hodge Hill		Signed
Jim Dowd	19/07/1995	Lewisham West		Signed
Bill Etherington	19/07/1995	Sunderland North		Signed
Norman Godman	19/07/1995	Greenock and Port Glasgow		Signed
Llin Golding	19/07/1995	Newcastle-under-Lyme		Signed
Harry Barnes	19/07/1995	North East Derbyshire		Signed
Gerry Sutcliffe	19/07/1995	Bradford South		Signed
Jack Thompson	19/07/1995	Wansbeck		Signed
Audrey Wise	19/07/1995	Preston		Signed
Jamie Cann	19/07/1995	Ipswich		Signed
Bill Michie	19/07/1995	Sheffield, Heeley		Signed
Colin Pickthall	19/07/1995	West Lancashire		Signed
Robert Parry	19/07/1995	Liverpool, Riverside		Signed
Ernie Ross	19/07/1995	Dundee West		Signed
Martin Smyth	19/07/1995	Belfast South		Signed
Peter Hardy	19/07/1995	Wentworth		Signed
Kevin Hughes	19/07/1995	Doncaster North		Signed
Eric Illsley	19/07/1995	Barnsley Central		Signed
Lynne Jones	19/07/1995	Birmingham, Selly Oak		Signed
John McAllion	19/07/1995	Dundee East		Signed
William McKelvey	19/07/1995	Kilmarnock & Loudoun		Signed
Joan Ruddock	16/10/1995	Lewisham, Deptford		Signed
Stan Orme	16/10/1995	Salford East		Signed
Ann Coffey	16/10/1995	Stockport		Signed
Dennis Turner	17/10/1995	Wolverhampton South East		Signed
Jeremy Corbyn	17/10/1995	Islington North		Signed
Malcolm Chisholm	17/10/1995	Edinburgh Leith		Signed
Helen Liddell	18/10/1995	Monklands East		Signed
Ken Livingstone	18/10/1995	Brent East		Signed
Jimmy Dunnachie	18/10/1995	Glasgow, Pollok		Signed
John Evans	18/10/1995	St Helens North		Signed
Roger Godsiff	18/10/1995	Birmingham Small Heath		Signed
Win Griffiths	19/10/1995	Bridgend		Signed
Michael Clapham	19/10/1995	Barnsley West & Penistone		Signed
Ronnie Campbell	19/10/1995	Blyth Valley		Signed
Elfyn Llwyd	19/10/1995	Meirionnydd Nant Conwy		Signed
Barry Jones	19/10/1995	Alyn & Deeside		Signed
Jimmy Hood	19/10/1995	Clydesdale		Signed
Tony Benn	23/10/1995	Chesterfield		Signed
Mike Hall	26/10/1995	Warrington South		Signed
Roland Boyes	01/11/1995	Houghton and Washington		Signed
Allan Rogers	06/11/1995	Rhondda		Signed

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