Seanad debates

Tuesday, 13 May 2003

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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