Senator calls for cancer screening

Eighty Irish women will die of cervical cancer this year unless a full national screening programme is implemented, according…

Eighty Irish women will die of cervical cancer this year unless a full national screening programme is implemented, according to Senator Helen Keogh, of Fine Gael.

Senator Keogh said that the National Cervical Screening Programme was behind schedule and should have started in 1999 if the target in the Plan for Women's Health was to be achieved.

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