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Mon 09 Sep 2008Cancer survival rates 'lower than in other EU states'
Europa Donna Ireland Conference:THE CHANCES of cancer patients in the Republic beating their disease are significantly lower than in many other European countries, the State's director of cancer control has confirmed.
Prof Tom Keane told a conference in Dublin on Saturday that the five-year survival rate for cancer patients in the Republic at 45 per cent was 10 per cent less than in the best-performing countries.
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