Seanad debates
Wednesday, 16 April 2003
Cancer Treatment Services: Statements.
It is on areas such as this that we need to focus in order to try to encourage people to stop smoking. We could be facing a situation where there will be an epidemic of lung cancer in women in their 40s and 50s. I also read an article which stated that in Tower Hamlets in London, for the first time ever a year or two ago, lung cancer beat breast cancer as the most common form of cancer in women. This is the first health board area in England where this has happened. I do not think it has happened in Ireland. Everything we can do about cancer and its prevention must be done.
No comments