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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with All-Ireland Cancer Research Institute (23 Feb 2023)

Professor Mark Lawler: I can comment on screening. Obviously cervical cancer is one of the three cancers we should routinely screen for now. Unfortunately, there was a European Council declaration in 2003 advising that we want to get things right in terms of cervical cancer, bowel cancer and breast cancer but 20 years later we still have not got it right. Thankfully, there has been a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with All-Ireland Cancer Research Institute (23 Feb 2023)

...agree with Ms Mulroe. The HPV vaccine is a brilliant example of how research informs clinical care and reduces cancer burden worldwide. At some point, somebody figured out that the HPV causes cervical cancer. It sounds simple but it was not a simple thing to discover. It was due to laboratory-based research. It was only figured out because somebody was able to take samples of a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with All-Ireland Cancer Research Institute (23 Feb 2023)

Ms Eibhl?n Mulroe: At this stage, and I represent the cancer trials group, which is made up of Professor Lowery and all of the oncologists in this country, the HPV vaccine will eradicate cervical cancer and cancers that affect young men. Therefore, it does not make sense what was said about the cost. Anyone who works in cancer research looks for ways to end this particular cancer and the...