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Sat 11 Nov 2008Nine-month wait for bowel cancer test
PATIENTS CAN still be waiting up to nine months for crucial tests to determine if they have bowel cancer, new figures show.
The figures released by the Irish Cancer Society (ICS) yesterday indicate patients can be waiting up to nine months for colonoscopies at Dublin's Mater hospital, up to eight months at Cork University Hospital, and up to seven months at Sligo and Letterkenny general hospitals.
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