Results 1-7 of 7 for hpv segment:8528965
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with All-Ireland Cancer Research Institute (23 Feb 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I want to ask about the affordability of the HPV vaccine, particularly where GPs prescribe it and the patient cannot afford to pay the price of €600. I have raised this issue several times. How important is it, when a clinician recommends that somebody needs to have, and should have, the HPV vaccine, that we make the vaccine affordable? On the previous occasion we met we talked...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with All-Ireland Cancer Research Institute (23 Feb 2023)
Professor William Gallagher: On HPV vaccination, I do not think we have the specific expertise in this group to address the question. More generally, and again Professor Lawler would have a lot of experience at a European level in terms of equity of access to treatments and diagnostics, it is a big research question. There are significant disparities regionally across Europe and obviously...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with All-Ireland Cancer Research Institute (23 Feb 2023)
...happen and certainly there has been some very good work done in Ireland on that. Early detection is critical and forms the bedrock of one of our research programmes. Everybody who requires the HPV vaccine should get it and let us remember it is not just a vaccination for girls. There has to be vaccination for boys as well because there are a number of cancers caused by HPV such...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with All-Ireland Cancer Research Institute (23 Feb 2023)
Professor Maeve Lowery: On behalf of all of us, we 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...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with All-Ireland Cancer Research Institute (23 Feb 2023)
...who sit in ivory towers. That is no longer the case. Research is now an integral part of 21st century cancer care. The committee will have heard what Professor Lowery said. We would not have a HPV vaccine unless we had research to do that. The situation with cancer research is similar. We have stated in this report that if you do not have research, you do not have good clinical care....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with All-Ireland Cancer Research Institute (23 Feb 2023)
Patrick Costello: ...some of this may reflect public policy that is outside the direct remit of our guests. However, I was struck by that point. I would love some more information on that. I am also curious about the HPV vaccine and the general take-up and roll-out of it. There has been a growth in conspiracy and concern around vaccines and a turn away from them despite their life-saving efficacy. Will the...
- 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...