A 16 year old cancer victim who was inadvertently given more than 17 overdoses of radiation during treatment for a brain tumour, has died at home nine months later.
Lisa Norris had been told by doctors that a course of radiotherapy had destroyed a tumour in her brain and she was clear of cancer.
Lisa and her family from Girvan, in Ayrshire, had celebrated the success of the radiation treatment when within days consultants from the Beatson Oncology Centre in Glasgow visited her at home to tell her she had been exposed to massive overdoses of radiation during the cancer treatment.
Her family have blamed her death on the hospital blunder and say they believe the return of the cancer was a direct result of the mistake and not a natural recurrence of the disease.
Lisa's father, Ken Norris, has described his daughter as positive and strong and an inspiration; they did not expect her to die.
She had apparently been exposed to a level of radiation 65 per cent higher than prescribed.
Lisa had asked the doctors if she was going to die, but they apparently ignored her and when she asked if she would survive for five years, they could not give her an answer.
NHS Greater Glasgow did at the time admit to the overdoses, which were administered by three different physicians and went unnoticed by two hospital administrators, as the result of human error.
The health trust is now expected to face legal action from Lisa’s parents, along with legal action from dozens of other patients, as it has since been disclosed that there were 46 incidents over the past 20 years during radiotherapy treatment, including 14 cases in which patients were given overdoses.
Hospital staff are said to be "extremely upset" over Lisa’s death and condolences have been extended to the family on behalf of the organisation.