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Radiation overdose teenager dies

October 23, 2006

From BBC Health - October 19, 2006 06:06

A teenage girl who received at least 17 overdoses during her treatment for a brain tumour passes away.

A 16-year-old cancer patient who was given massive overdoses of radiation earlier this year has died.

Lisa Norris, from Girvan in Ayrshire, received at least 17 overdoses during treatment for a brain tumour at the Beatson Oncology Centre in Glasgow.

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Sir John Arbuthnott, the chairman of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, said everyone was "extremely upset at the sad news".