No extra funding for colorectal cancer national screening programme

NO extra funding will be made available for a national screening programme for the country’s second most deadly form of cancer, it has been confirmed.

Launching its Government-supported plan to screen anyone between the ages of 55 and 74 for colorectal cancer, the National Cancer Screening Service (NCSS) revealed how the cancer results in 1,900 new cases in Ireland every year and more than 900 deaths.

The plan, developed by the NCSS’s advisory group on colorectal cancer, is expected to cost up to €15 million to develop.