Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)

The second evidence is domestic evidence in Ireland. The National Cancer Registry of Ireland, a new organisation established in the early 1990s, has produced two reports on breast cancer, one for the period 1994 -97 and one for the period 1998-2001. Those two reports show that women treated in specialist centres in Dublin have a survival rate that is 25% better than women treated elsewhere in the country. Unfortunately the women in the west have the poorest survival rates. What does that mean? It means that where four women in a Dublin centre will survive only three women will survive having been treated elsewhere.

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