Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 1 February 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion
Professor Riste?rd ? Laoide:
I thank Senator Black very much for her question. That is a very important issue. Coming back to Deputy Burke's point about awareness generally of risk factors for cancer, I do not think we can do enough on that. When I come in here and Senator Black says we should be doing more, she is absolutely right. We should be doing more. We work with Healthy Ireland within the HSE on campaigns on all these issues. There is no doubt that, in many people's minds, cancer and cigarettes are much more intimately linked than alcohol and cancer. As Senator Black says, it results in a significant incidence of head, neck, stomach and liver cancers, as well as breast cancer. I certainly take her point that we should be doing more about that, and possibly doing more of it in schools, because that is where these habits begin. I fully take the point. I do not know if Professor Hill or Dr. Faul have anything to add to that.
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