Place: BreastCheck

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

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A breast biopsy result in an instant

The SmartProbe needle can give women a cancer all-clear immediately, thus sparing them an anxious wait and reducing a test backlog clogged with benign results, says Health Correspondent Catherine Shanahan.

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Revealed: CUH to be sole acute care centre

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Busiest year for closing Cork cancer unit

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BreastCheck: Advance schedules see women delay tests

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BreastCheck delay a ‘time bomb’, says TD

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Cancer crisis report examined

There’s a TD for every 23,000 of us and a cancer specialist for 500,000

ACCORDING to the constitution, the number of TDs cannot be more than one per every 20,000 of the population, and cannot be less than one per every 30,000.

Fri, 25 Nov, 2005

Women go for breast op rather than radiation

WOMEN with breast cancer are opting to have a mastectomy rather than face a six-hour journey for 10 minutes of radiation treatment.

Mon, 23 May, 2005

Campaigners take radiotherapy fight to the Dáil

CANCER service campaigners are taking their fight to the Dáil today to press for radiotherapy services for the south east at Waterford Regional Hospital.

Tue, 08 Feb, 2005

Four-year wait for BreastCheck to be fully operational

IT will take four more years before the national breast-screening programme is fully rolled out, the Department of Health admitted yesterday.

Thu, 02 Sep, 2004

Martin urged to quit by TD over health ‘scandal’

INDEPENDENT TD Dr Jerry Cowley has called on Health Minister Micheál Martin to resign, blaming him for a litany of problems in health services in the west, including the deaths of almost 200 women from breast cancer.

Mon, 26 May, 2003

Cutbacks may delay extension of breast screening programme

FEARS have been raised that cutbacks in health budgets will delay the planned nationwide extension of the national breast screening programme, BreastCheck, next year.

Sat, 24 Aug, 2002