'It was heartbreaking to know a potential lifeline existed': Cancer patients call for access to lifesaving drugs

Research has found Irish patients see slower access to many new therapies and treatments than patients in Europe.

A cancer patient who needed €300,000 in fundraising to have vital treatment in London has joined forces with other advocates to call for faster access to lifesaving drugs in Ireland.

The United Cancer Advocates Network (Ucan) includes people with experience of 12 cancers, or stages of cancer. The group handed in a letter at Leinster House on Wednesday for health minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill.