Seanad debates
Wednesday, 19 February 2003
Cancer Screening Programme: Motion.
The board of BreastCheck has submitted a business plan and there are three geographic elements to the expansion in that plan. Three further counties – Carlow, Wexford and Kilkenny – are part of the eastern region. Women from those counties who require treatment will be referred to the static units in Dublin, which are already in place. In regard to the west and south, we have selected where the static units will go – the South Infirmary in Cork and UCH in Galway. We must build those static units before anything can happen in those counties. I recently announced that, as part of the next stage of the programme, BreastCheck will roll out the programme in Carlow, Wexford and Kilkenny. Approximately 19,000 women will be covered and about 60 additional cancers will be diagnosed.
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