New machine will aid cancer patients

LIMERICK mother Gerardine Murphy is one of thousands of cancer patients from around Munster who will benefit from a new treatment machine switched on in Cork yesterday.

She was the last patient to be treated on a Cobalt treatment machine at Cork University Hospital (CUH), which is the only public centre outside Dublin offering patients radiotherapy.

“This marks the end of an era as Cobalt units have been used in Cork for treating patients with cancer for more than 40 years,” said Derry Little, CUH’s radiotherapy services manager.