Seanad debates
Wednesday, 19 February 2003
Cancer Screening Programme: Motion.
We must take seriously the need for a better spread of radiotherapy services around the country. Galway, Waterford and Limerick are the most obvious instances. The Minister already knows this to be the case and I am not telling him something he has not heard before. It is very difficult to get a centre of excellence with surgeons, oncologists, breast treatment nurses, psychologists and other professionals all working together if one knows that women in the west of Ireland will need more extensive operative treatment simply because there is not a radiotherapy unit nearby.
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