Written answers
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
Department of Health
Cancer Services
Denise Mitchell (Dublin Bay North, Sinn Fein)
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187. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify if it is considered best practice that all pancreatic cancer patients, regardless of family history, receive genetic testing to identify and detect a possible inherited predisposition to such cancer in close family relatives; if she will clarify the timeline between a referral for such testing and the actual test being conducted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34653/25]
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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As this is a matter regarding the clinical decision making process, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.
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