Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 19 October 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion

Mr. Martin O'Sullivan:

There is a multidisciplinary team under the NCCP consisting of surgeons, radiologists, nurses, administrative staff, patient representatives and so on looking at this issue. As Professor Flanagan said, it is a moving target at times with new data coming out. A health technology assessment in 2013 made some recommendations. Algorithms have been made as to how we categorise these patients so we can categorise them as moderate risk, high risk-----

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