Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 February 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion

Photo of Colm BurkeColm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I want to go back to the issue of young people. About two months ago, two young people contacted me about housing issues. Both of them had major health problems. One person, who was only 24, had both lung and stomach cancer and the other person had had a bone marrow transplant. A lot of young people do not think cancer can affect them and yet I met two young people in one week from two different households who were affected. We need to get information out to young people about symptoms of cancer. I am not sure that we are doing enough in that whole area.

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