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Wed 06 Jun 2007Hospital rules out cancer tests inquiryThe family of a 75-year-old woman who say she was scheduled to have her stomach removed at Dublin's Mater hospital after initial tests wrongly indicated she had stomach cancer now want a full inquiry into what happened.Kathleen Byrne, who is the mother of Patients Together founder Janette Byrne, had a biopsy at the hospital last October and was told it indicated she had stomach cancer.