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
Professor Risteárd Ó Laoide:
We do not have any statistical evidence for that at this stage. There is anecdotal evidence that some of the cases are more advanced, certainly regarding other types of cancers. Professor Hill may wish to comment on the situation with breast cancer specifically. To clarify, we will get the data on this issue. The information comes from National Cancer Registry Ireland and there is a two-year lag before we will get it. There is a concern in Ireland and internationally that the impact of Covid-19 for the last 18 months, compounded by the cyberattack here, will lead to the upstaging of cancers. That is our sense of things but we do not have the data in that regard yet. They will come from National Cancer Registry Ireland.
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