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Tue 07 Jul 2008Consultant claims cancer strategy based on wrong assumption
THE BASIC assumption underlying the Government’s cancer strategy is wrong, according to a consultant oncologist. He said decisions were being made by people who were unwilling to listen to reasonable arguments.
Consultant Michael Martin, who is based at Sligo General Hospital (SGH), said research he has presented to the Minister and the HSE suggests that survival figures will not improve if breast cancer services are transferred from Sligo to University Hospital Galway.
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