Pandemic 'particularly difficult' for people with cancer, Oireachtas committee to hear

About 42,000 Irish women are referred to symptomatic breast disease clinics each year, with about 2,500 to 3,000 of those likely to receive a subsequent diagnosis of breast cancer. File picture: PA 

The Covid-19 pandemic has been a “particularly difficult” time for people in Ireland living with cancer, the HSE’s national director for cancer services will tell an Oireachtas committee on Tuesday.

About 300,000 cancer screenings were delayed last year as a result of the impact of Covid-19 after testing programmes were suspended in March 2020.