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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: I thank the Chairman and the HSE officials. Like others here I requested this briefing. I know it can come across, especially on Zoom or Teams, as though it is an interrogation. It is not intended as such. The officials have presented us with a really good narrative of some of the background issues. I have some quick-fire, statistics questions that require short answers, if possible. If...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: Okay. One of the questions exercising many people who are advocates in this space is the age profile of those women who were screened for breast cancer. I found the officials' narrative this morning much more positive than the answer I got to a parliamentary question to the HSE. That was on reducing the age profile of women, or expanding it, basically. The officials have today said they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: Okay. I thank Professor Flanagan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: Okay, and on those principles of screening - because Professor Flanagan spent a lot of time on that-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: I get that. The professor is saying the principles of screening she outlined apply to all cancer screening.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: I thank her for that because the parliamentary question response I got talked about the potential harms or risks to the population as a whole but it did not go on to elaborate on those. What Professor Flanagan has said is really useful and very helpful, that is, this could cause unneeded anxiety and alarm among the population. If the professor has more to say to us on that, please forward...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: The parliamentary question response mentions something which was not in the opening statement this morning. It says the National Screening Advisory Committee, NSAC, is: [...] currently finalising plans for its first ‘annual call’ which will be announced later this year. Applications for proposals for new population based screening programmes and modifications to existing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: I thank Ms Murphy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: No, that was a comprehensive and open response. I have three or four further brief questions. There are approximately 700 deaths from breast cancer annually. Have the witnesses any statistics on how many of those mortalities fall into the age group of 49 and younger?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: This seems to be a very difficult question to get answers to. If the NCCP is the group we should ask for this information, it is a priority that the witnesses get it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: I thank Professor Ó Laoide. I would also like data on how many fall into the various age categories. That is what we are looking for, whether it is those aged 50 to 69 or under-50s. How long, on average, do those women who access BreastCheck and who are over the age of 50 have to wait for the screening? If the witnesses do not have statistics on that but can supply them to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: How long are the-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: Once somebody is in the system. What is the longest someone waits to get into the system?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: Please.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: If I may interrupt Professor Ó Laoide, I do not want to appear rude-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: -----but how long is the longest it can take for-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: When a woman attends her GP and is referred, what is the longest referral period?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: Is the St. James's screening clinic back up and running?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: Yes.