Radiation treatment to be overhauled after death of Lisa Norris
NEW safeguards to prevent cancer patients being given radiation overdoses are set to be introduced in the wake of teenager Lisa Norris's death.
The Record revealed in 2006 how she had been given 17 separate overdoses of up to 60 per cent during treatment for a brain tumour at the Beatson Oncology Centre in Glasgow.
She died aged 16 in October that year at her home in Girvan, Ayrshire.
It later emerged there had been 36 radiation overdose cases in Scotland in the last 10 years, 27 at the Beatson.
Now the International Commission on Radiological Protection have ordered an overhaul of the system.
They called on medics to rely less on computer technology and for a global website to log errors and near-misses. They also urged caution in the use of new radiography machines.
Lisa's dad Ken said: "Hopefully her legacy will be that the chances of this sort of tragedy befalling another family will be greatly reduced."