Irish Cancer Society wants specialised units

The Irish Cancer Society is calling for more specialised units to be introduced across the country in a bid to detect the disease at an earlier stage.

The Irish Cancer Society is calling for more specialised units to be introduced across the country in a bid to detect the disease at an earlier stage.

The society is making the call in the wake of figures that show a new case of breast cancer is diagnosed here every five hours.

Cancer specialist at St James’ hospital Dr John Kennedy insists that such facilities would greatly help them fight the disease.

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