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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

...enormous potential in cancer because of the scale of the pace of medical and scientific progress and the improvements from things like the HPV vaccine. We now have a whole form of cancer, that is, cervical cancer, which is preventable. Hopefully it will be eradicated in the coming years. There is more potential to be able to prevent more cancers in the future and to have far better,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

...aggressive than it is in older women, so we notice that as well. I suspect it is more likely that. We do not see a particularly significant increase in the death rate for younger women. Once the cervical vaccination programme really starts to kick in, we will see a significant reduction in the number of women in their 30s and late 20s with cervical cancer, which will be tremendous. It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Seán Crowe: ...we can possibly take up with the HSE. One area we have not really focused on - and the expansion of screening was mentioned - is a worry that came up previously with regard to the scandal over cervical cancer and the samples being sent abroad. We have not touched on it this morning. That is still happening and it was made worse during the Covid-19 pandemic. Many of those samples were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Ms Averil Power: Regarding screening and the cervical samples, I understand that the director of the screening service will be in with the next group. I know there has been investment into the facility in the Coombe but it will take time for that to be able to process all the Irish samples. Maybe the director can give an update on that. Regarding screening programmes in general, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Seán Crowe: The witnesses did not get the opportunity to respond on the screening that is happening abroad. The issue arose during the cervical cancer thing, but I think it is still a big concern for people. Screening needs to be timely and accurate, and people need to have trust in it. Anybody listening in who is worried should know that there are services there. They should contact their GP. If...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

...with partner charities. Priorities include health inequalities, at-risk groups and skin cancer prevention. The National Screening Service delivers four national population-based screening programmes, namely, bowel, breast and cervical cancer, and retinopathy for people with diabetes. These programmes aim to reduce morbidity and mortality in the population through prevention and-or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

...there certainly are some that do so. There is great interest in the issue. Our challenge at the moment is to make sure enough people come forward from the age range we cover. At this time, the cervical screening programme is fifth and the breast screening programme is sixth in terms of OECD comparisons. The average across the world is that approximately 55% of people come forward for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

...come through screening as opposed to where the disease is detected through the symptomatic route and referral by GP. The two cancer screening programmes that help prevent cancer are the bowel and cervical programmes. In the case of cervical cancer, the rate of the disease in Ireland was such that 15 out of every 100,000 women would develop it. Since the screening programme was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Dr. Colm Henry: The other question about the critical link in screening programmes is, once people are screened positive, how quickly they access services, whether colposcopy, cervical, further breast investigation or endoscopy. We have very good metrics. I will ask Ms Murphy to speak on our colposcopy service, which is much more resilient now, with the development of gynaecology clinics...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

...is to get the age down to 55 years and get it up to 74 at the other end. As Dr. Henry says, having follow-up available is important. One area we have focused on for the women who come for cervical screening is how quickly they get to colposcopy services. Great work has been done by colposcopy units, with good investment from previous bids. Anyone urgent is seen within two weeks....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

...we engage in assessing the case of a screening programme. Are we able to deliver the service arm that is required, whether it is endoscopy, breast surgery or intervention in cases of dysplasia and the cervical screening programme? Does Ms Murphy wish to comment on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

...That is very much where we want to go next. We bid for funding separately to the national cancer control programme, NCCP. We have been successful in getting funding for the breast expansion, the cervical expansion, so I am confident that we will get funding for the bowel expansion as well. As Dr. Henry said, it means the wider endoscopy services across the country need expanding. We do...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

...directed at apparently healthy populations. For people who have symptoms, a screening programme is not appropriate. If there are symptoms which are suspicious of breast cancer, bowel cancer or cervical cancer, it is not a question of expediting one's screening patterns, it is one of getting through to the appropriate clinics and specialists as quickly as possible.