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Breast screening service hit by staff shortages
A TARGET of offering all eligible woman a free X-ray to check for breast cancer every two years was not met in 2010, as the BreastCheck service was hit by a shortage of staff. Majella Byrne, acting...
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Five of eight breast cancer centres miss waiting time targets
FIVE of the country’s eight specialist hospitals failed to meet waiting time targets for breast cancer investigations last year, figures obtained by the Irish Independent reveal. The hospitals are...
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Department to spend €60,000 on Breastcheck review
The Department of Health is to spend up to €60,000 in a bid to identify efficiencies in a value-for-money review on the State’s rollout of Breastcheck. A spokeswoman for the National Cancer Screening...
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Breast cancer treatment to be revolutionised after landmark study
The Department of Health and Cancer Research UK are due to publish a review of the breast cancer screening program later this year after studies suggested that up to 10 women undergo unnecessary...
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Micro gene discovery may refine cancer screening
The genetic control system involving the novel gene has been identified by Prof Charles Spillane’s Genetics and Biotechnology Laboratory in collaboration with Prof Michael J Kerin of the National...
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Breast cancer therapy boost
AN IRISH research team has found a way to switch off a patient’s resistance to breast cancer treatments. The findings may also help spot women likely to develop resistance to the most often used...
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Cancer drug discoverer awarded fellowship
Dr Dennis Slamon, the doctor who discovered the breast cancer drug Herceptin, was awarded a fellowship by the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland last night. Dr Slamon’s discovery of Herceptin in...
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Enough of the fuzzy euphemisms. It’s time for a grown-up conversation about...
Today, despite the ubiquity of the pink ribbon and the best efforts of well-meaning organisations like the Irish Cancer Society to educate us, confusion about the disease still reigns. Many of us are...
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Malcolm Kell on breast cancer prevention
There is no single best choice of breast reconstruction, the “gold standard” is to discuss all available options with patients and make sure that the type of reconstruction which best suits an...
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Irish cancer experts decry breast cancer study findings
Irish cancer experts have urged caution about a British study that appears to show that breast cancer screening programmes have yet to show a reduction in the number of women who die from the disease....
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Breast self-examination a waste of time, says cancer registry chief
Regular breast self-examination is a “waste of time” in the early detection of breast cancer, while there is “very little evidence” that annual prostate-specific antigen (PSA) tests have any impact on...
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Irish breast cancer research centre to be first of its kind in world
Women diagnosed with breast cancer are to be asked to contribute tumour tissue to a national biobank which will be used to monitor treatments for the disease. Breast Predict, the first nationwide...
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Seamus Clarke on care for breast cancer patients
What the National Cancer Control Programme/HSE have failed to inform the women who hold medical cards is that this preventative care is not covered by the medical card scheme and that they maybe...
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Surgeon would have ordered mammogram for patient in 2007 if he had the resources
A breast cancer surgeon facing six allegations of professional misconduct told a Medical Council fitness-to-practise inquiry if he’d had the resources he had today he would have referred a 40-year-old...
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Séamus O’Reilly: Recurrent breast cancer patients ‘need liaison nurse’
Dr Séamus O’Reilly, a consultant oncologist at Cork University Hospital (CUH), said women with metastatic (or recurrent) breast cancer, where the disease has spread from the breast to other parts of...
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Breast cancer surgeon cleared of professional misconduct
A breast cancer surgeon whose 40-year-old patient had her diagnosis delayed by 10 months has been cleared of professional misconduct at a Medical Council fitness-to-practise inquiry today. The doctor,...
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Breast cancer risk cut by daily hour-long walk, study finds
Women who walk for an hour a day can cut their chance of breast cancer by 14 per cent, a study has found. While it is well known that being active cuts risk of the disease, this is the first study to...
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Breast cancer death rate falls by 19% in past decade
Health Minister, Dr James Reilly, welcomed the Department of Health’s document, Health in Ireland: Key Trends 2013, which chronicles the changing nature of Irish health over the past decade. “Overall,...
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More Irish women are winning breast cancer fight as death rate drops by a third
It marks a major turnaround since the 1980s, as Prof Phillipe Autier of the Internal Prevention Research Unit at Lyon, France said the largest fall has been in those countries which once had the...
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