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:

Yes, the Deputy is raising an important issue which arose in our earlier discussions concerning a public awareness campaign. We are working with several agencies to do that. It is also important to say that if someone is in the non-urgent category, that is, has a low risk of breast cancer, then we must and should tell the patients that if they have suspicious symptoms indicative of breast cancer, they need to go to their GP immediately and that they will then be seen as part of the urgent category.

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