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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Colm Burke: Besides ovarian cancer, what other cancer has survival rates that are below the norm?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Colm Burke: I know it is great to be on a par with other countries, but the issue in healthcare is to try to be ahead. What do we need to do to make sure that people get diagnosed early, get the best quality care and are able to survive? What do we need to do to ensure that we are above average rather than being on a par with others or below average? What additional work do we need to do in these areas?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Colm Burke: On the areas where survival rates are below average, is there a major campaign to make sure that we can improve the service and that people who require treatment can access it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Colm Burke: Okay. I want to move onto the issue of getting information out there. I want to focus, in particular, on lung cancer and prostate cancer. I am not convinced that there is enough information out there to ensure that people can go to their GP and then on for further checking at an earlier stage than is happening currently. Is there a plan as regards getting more information out there? Dr....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Colm Burke: We have done a national programme in relation to breast cancer. Is there any proposal to do something similar in relation to prostate cancer, for example?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Colm Burke: Unfortunately, a member of my family died from lung cancer in the last seven days so-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Colm Burke: -----I am very much aware of the challenges of the disease. This was a person who did not smoke. We also need to get the message across that lung cancer can affect people who never smoked. This is important because people who have a cough might ignore thinking it could not be lung cancer because they have never smoked in their lives. We need to get that message out there as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Colm Burke: How many clinics do we have with that service?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Colm Burke: We have eight of those centres around the country. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Colm Burke: Are people aware of that? I am not sure members of the public are aware that they can get access rapidly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Colm Burke: What is proposed on prostate cancer with regard to getting information out there so that people who have symptoms of prostate cancer would go to their GP? Is there enough information out there on that whole area?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Colm Burke: We still need to make progress in this area. We have made a lot of progress already; I fully accept that but-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Colm Burke: I want to go back to the issue of young people. About two months ago, two young people contacted me about housing issues. Both of them had major health problems. One person, who was only 24, had both lung and stomach cancer and the other person had had a bone marrow transplant. A lot of young people do not think cancer can affect them and yet I met two young people in one week from two...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Colm Burke: If it was proposed, could it be helpful?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Colm Burke: New Zealand is introducing legislation to prohibit the sale of cigarettes to anyone born after a certain date. Would the witnesses be in favour of similar legislation being introduced in Ireland?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)
Colm Burke: I thank all the witnesses for their presentations this morning. While they were making those presentations, I received a text from someone who works in a hospital in which a nurse was held on the ground in a headlock and physically choked. She was turning blue when a porter happened to come into the room and helped to get her out of a very difficult situation. What is frightening about...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)
Colm Burke: In other words, out of 5,000 cases or even if we go back to previous years, we do not have any figures on the numbers prosecuted.