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Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (27 Mar 2007)

Paudge Connolly: ...eastern region whom the report reveals are less likely to receive radiotherapy for breast cancer or surgery for prostate cancer; the delay in the full national roll-out of both BreastCheck and the cervical screening programme; the regional variations in the use of both chemotherapy and radiotherapy for patients which have persisted outside the eastern region; and call on the Government to...

Cancer Services: Motion. (31 Jan 2007)

Paudge Connolly: ...Eating green vegetables and a good balanced diet also help to prevent cancer. We must accept some degree of personal responsibility for cancer. Cancers can be detected much earlier. There is the cervical screening programme, BreastCheck and a simple blood check which can indicate whether one has prostate cancer. People have a responsibility not to leave getting checked until they have...

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (24 May 2005)

Paudge Connolly: Question 143: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in the provision of a national cervical screening programme; the proposed timescale for the programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16990/05]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (21 Apr 2005)

Paudge Connolly: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the need for a national cervical cancer screening programme for all women in Ireland between the ages of 25 and 60, the 90% reduction of the risk of cervical cancer with regular screening, the steady annual increase of 1.5% per year in deaths in the Republic of Ireland from cervical cancer in...

Cancer Screening Programme: Motion (Resumed). (13 Apr 2005)

Paudge Connolly: ...and 150,000 new diagnoses are made. These are frightening figures. It should be possible to fast-track at risk groups such as women from families with a genetic disposition towards breast cancer. Cervical screening should not be overlooked in this debate. The at risk group for this disease are ladies aged above 60 years, a group which does not, in general, avail of the cervical screening...