Seanad debates

Wednesday, 19 February 2003

Cancer Screening Programme: Motion.

 

The practical implication of this is that we could roll out two different strands of a service. We would have 13 centres of excellence with teams of surgeons, radiologists and pathologists while the BreastCheck model would be in these areas as well with separate teams of surgeons and so on. There is an important issue here in terms of the rollout. If a woman from Letterkenny was attending the BreastCheck programme in the east, even though we had developed a centre of excellence in Letterkenny, would she have to travel to Dublin for surgery and for post-diagnostic care if she was diagnosed through breast screening? BreastCheck states that she would have to do so.

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