Seanad debates

Wednesday, 23 October 2002

I strongly support all those who said something must be done about radiotherapy services. Recently I wrote to a constituent in Wexford about his wife, who has breast cancer and whom I had seen in the summer when she had chemotherapy. The reply I received thanked me for my remarks about the patient. He stated that she is doing well but we must surely get a radiotherapy unit in Waterford, and that trying to get into St. Luke's is a nightmare. He stated that she was hoping to commence radiotherapy two weeks previously, but he rang, the day before he wrote this letter to which I refer, to be told there were 22 people on the waiting list before her for this treatment, and that she will be at least another two weeks waiting. What difference is that making to her survival chances?

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