Seanad debates
Tuesday, 13 May 2003
Health Service: Statements.
The number of new patients receiving chemotherapy treatment increased from 2,693 per year in 1994 to 3,519 per year in 2000. This represents an increase of 30% nationally. Breast cancer is the individual site-specific cancer which has received the most investment in recent years and in-patient breast cancer procedures increased from 1,336 in 1997 to 1,839 in 2001. That is an increase of 37% nationally. We now have far more consultant oncologists in the system than we had three years ago.
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