Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion

2:00 am

Dr. Michael McCarthy:

In my experience, I did not go down the full list, but recently, immunotherapy for concurrent chemo-radiotherapy and cervical cancer patients treated curatively has been shown to be beneficial and, similarly, for head and neck cancer for patients with curative intent. For my patients, I would estimate that maybe 20% to 30% of patients fall into that category-----

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