Cancer treatment - Urgent need for radiation centres

THE Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children was told categorically yesterday that action for cancer patients, by way of improved services, is urgently needed.

Anybody familiar with the treatment of cancer patients in this country, especially public patients, will only too readily identify with the sentiments of Dr Ian Fraser, a consultant in radiation oncology.

He is all too familiar with the deficiencies in the treatment of cancer, having been appointed to care for patients attending the Mater hospital and St Luke's hospital, in Dublin.