Seanad debates

Wednesday, 16 April 2003

Cancer Treatment Services: Statements (Resumed).

 

We need to consider how to proceed in the area of cancer treatment. We can either have small, ineffectual units scattered throughout the country, providing a limited level of treatment, or we can have a large, top-of-the-range facility that will act as a one-stop shop for all cancer treatment. We must consider this in terms of what the Minister has identified as the importance of an international best practice approach. We cannot have both. Ireland is a relatively small country and having 30 centres scattered throughout the country, one in each of our main hospitals, would be neither effective nor possible.

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