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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cancer Registry Board: Chairperson Designate (31 May 2017)
Michael Harty: In respect of HPV vaccination, is there a plan to extend it to boys?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cancer Registry Board: Chairperson Designate (31 May 2017)
Kate O'Connell: ...a neighbour of mine. He has done amazing work in dealing with massive tragedy for people within his field, for friends and the greater community. To focus in on the human papilloma virus, HPV, vaccine specifically, one of the things I felt got most traction from a public interest point of view was when the committee discussed the impact of the fall-off in vaccinations of girls who are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cancer Registry Board: Chairperson Designate (31 May 2017)
...that vaccination is important and it works. I worry that parents who make decisions on behalf of their children are influencing other parents not to vaccinate. We have seen a spillover from the HPV vaccination debate in other countries in Europe and in parts of the US, where people are not vaccinating against MMR. We are seeing fatalities from infectious diseases which we do not see...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cancer Registry Board: Chairperson Designate (31 May 2017)
...as a matter of urgency. Approximately 40% of cancers can be attributed to lifestyle factors so we have to focus heavily on cancer prevention, good examples being the Healthy Ireland initiative and HPV vaccination. Second, we have to stress the importance of early diagnosis, screening, direct access to diagnostics for GPs and a net increase in the capacity of the health care system to...