irish lab, processed smear tests for ireland's health service. a government review four years ngo found that the labs mistakenly cleared more than 200 women here in ireland who were later diagnosed with cervical cancer. .ince then, 18 of those women have died. >> smear test. ff reporter: but most of the women affected were never told until one of them, vicky phelan, discovered a page from that review in her medical file. >> i said to my mother, i said, "jesus," i said, "mom, i had rancer in 2011. it wasn't just pre-cancer. i had cancer." >> reporter: she was the first to go to court and in april reached a roughly $3 million settlement with ireland's health service and c.p.l. in it will be mostly spent on buying me time and paying for clinical trials to keep me alive and to allow me to spend more time with my children. >> reporter: how concerned do you think american women using these labs should be? >> well, i think it probably is worth investigating in the