Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 21 April 2021
1801. Deputy Johnny Guirke asked the Minister for Health the number of persons who received a diagnostic test at a symptomatic breast disease clinic in each of the years 2018, 2019 and 2020; and the percentage of these patients who received a diagnosis of cancer in tabular form. [19024/21]
View answerSymptomatic Breast Disease Clinics for patients with suspected breast disease have been established by the HSE's National Cancer Control Programme (NCCP) in the eight designated cancer centres (with a satellite symptomatic breast disease clinic from UHG operating in Letterkenny University Hospital).
The number of patient attendances and subsequent primary breast cancer diagnoses for the years 2018-2020 are as follows:
|
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
|
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Number of patients triaged as urgent presenting to symptomatic breast clinics. |
20,443 |
20,905 |
20,523 |
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Number of Non-urgent attendances presenting to Symptomatic Breast clinics. |
22,408 |
21,917 |
17,364 |
|
Number of new attendances who have a subsequent primary diagnosis of breast cancer |
2,526 |
2,915 |
2,630 |
