Cancer treatment - Victims need action not promises

THE plight of a family decimated

No words of Health Minister Micheál Martin can lessen Margaret Turner's sorrow at seeing her mother struck down by a disease which both she and her sister have also contracted.

Instead of rebutting opposition claims, the minister's time would be better spent pressing the Government for funds to deliver a long-awaited radiotherapy unit for Waterford, where he launched a new MRI scanner and breast care facility yesterday.