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

Nicole Ryan (Sinn Fein)

I thank everybody for being here. My first question is around breast cancer. Yesterday, we had Breast Cancer Ireland in. It did an informative talk about BreastCheck. One of the stark things it talked about was diagnosis for breast cancer is now as low at 15 years of age. It also spoke about the barriers in being so young and trying to get a diagnosis. Sometimes the barrier could be with GPs not believing you when you know there is an issue. Is there more of that? Is it becoming an issue?

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