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Head of Medical Negligence and Personal Injury , Rachael Flanagan, addresses the new maternity service worries at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

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Whilst many women in the UK have a positive experience of birth, resulting in a healthy baby, this is not always the case. Pregnant women should have access to quality and consistency of care in maternity units throughout their pregnancy and across the country, it should not be a post code lottery as to the quality of care women receive. But, in recent years there have been a number of major investigations into failings in maternity care at specific NHS trusts.

Most people don’t have serious long term effects from radiotherapy. But because Hodgkin lymphoma treatment is so successful and people are living a long time after treatment, doctors are beginning to see problems emerging many years later.
Research has found that women treated for Hodgkin lymphoma with radiotherapy when they were under 30 years of age have an increased risk of developing another cancer later in life. The highest risk is the possible development of breast cancer approximately 10 years later. This is caused by radiotherapy to the chest area.