Written answers
Wednesday, 21 April 2021
Department of Health
Health Screening Programmes
Johnny Guirke (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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1801. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who received a diagnostic test at a symptomatic breast disease clinic in each of the years 2018, 2019 and 2020; and the percentage of these patients who received a diagnosis of cancer in tabular form. [19024/21]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Symptomatic Breast Disease Clinics for patients with suspected breast disease have been established by the HSE's National Cancer Control Programme (NCCP) in the eight designated cancer centres (with a satellite symptomatic breast disease clinic from UHG operating in Letterkenny University Hospital).
The number of patient attendances and subsequent primary breast cancer diagnoses for the years 2018-2020 are as follows:
| 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of patients triaged as urgent presenting to symptomatic breast clinics. | 20,443 | 20,905 | 20,523 |
| Number of Non-urgent attendances presenting to Symptomatic Breast clinics. | 22,408 | 21,917 | 17,364 |
| Number of new attendances who have a subsequent primary diagnosis of breast cancer | 2,526 | 2,915 | 2,630 |
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