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

.... We were able to make those leaps faster. There is 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...

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

...screening programmes have a key role in reducing morbidity and mortality related to cancer. The cancer strategy includes recommendations to extend breast screening from age of 65 up to 69, which was delivered in 2020; change to HPV primary screening in cervical screening, which was achieved in 2020, and preliminary evidence shows is a key factor in our drive towards cervical cancer...

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

...focusing particularly on cancer inequalities, sharing comparable data across the EU in terms of benchmarking and learning from how we are doing. For example, we are quite good on things like HPV uptake in this country compared with other countries. Our tobacco control is quite good compared with others. Our obesity rates, however, are slightly above those of other counterparts. This...

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

...100,000 women would develop it. Since the screening programme was introduced, that is down to just over ten, which is remarkable over that period. The introduction of the human papillomavirus, HPV, vaccine was an absolute game changer. Over the course of the next few years, we will move to a rate of four per 100,000. We have modelled that out with the help of Australian researchers....

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

Ms Fiona Murphy: On service expansion, we have completed the breast test expansion part of the strategy. We have completed the move to HPV. We have started the expansion of bowel tests. We have more to do there. We lost a few years with Covid and our ambition 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...