Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 February 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement

Engagement with All-Ireland Cancer Research Institute

Photo of Patrick CostelloPatrick Costello (Dublin South Central, Green Party)
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That is the survival advantage. What Professor Lawler is saying is that those colorectal cancers would have occurred anyway. They might have just been picked up earlier and those patients might have survived. It seems from what he is saying here that there will be more colorectal cancer overall.