Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 23 May 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion
9:00 am
Professor Arnold Hill:
That is the difficulty. We have to explain the limitation of the test and that a cancer will not be picked up in 10% of cases. A mammogram test is not a perfect test. It is a very good test and the best one we have but it is not perfect. We need people to understand that the test is limited in its value but it is the best one we have.