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A former Royal Adelaide Hospital cancer patient has demanded answers as to why he may have been incorrectly treated. (ABC News) A former Royal Adelaide Hospital cancer patient has demanded answers as to why he may have been incorrectly treated. One of four radiotherapy machines at the hospital was found to have given patients lower doses of radiation between July 2004 and July 2006. Ashleigh Moore suffered from head and neck cancer and is potentially one of the hospital's 720 cancer patients to have received an incorrect dosage of radiation. Mr Moore, who is also the chairman of Cancer Voices SA, says the bungle highlights a terrible flaw in the State's health system. "From a safety and quality perspective I suppose and as far as the health care system in South Australia [goes], it seems as though there's something terribly... [read full story]
