Catherine Ardagh (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I also welcome the children from the primary school. It shows that our national cancer strategy has been hugely effective but we can always do more, particularly with regard to screening. It would be great to see the extension of lung cancer screening programmes. Every person we treat requires a yearly scan post treatment and when he or she is in remission, so it is so important we put the money and investment into ensuring post-diagnosis and post-remission scans are in place for families because people have to live through their cancer diagnosis and their cancer journey. This means when they are well. They want to know that, every year in June, they will get their scan, it is going to be fine and they can get on with their lives. Sometimes people wait years for their post-cancer scan, which is unacceptable, so we need to ensure we extend the screening programmes for breast cancer. It would be great to see the age for breast cancer screening reduced and the extension of screening to lung cancer.