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Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Tuesday, 10 Mar 1998

Vol. 488 No. 4

Written Answers - Cancer Treatment Services.

Emmet Stagg

Ceist:

208 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Health and Children his views on whether a person (details supplied) in County Kildare, who was diagnosed as having ovarian cancer and had an operation on 7 January 1998 in the Rotunda Hospital, requires the precise continuation of a cycle of chemotherapy, whereby treatment is for five day periods with a two week interval: his further views on whether a break in this cycle is not acceptable; if he will confirm that the patient will in future be kept to a strict cycle of treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6469/98]

The course of clinical treatment and the scheduling of hospital appointments is a matter for the hospital authorities and the treating clinicians. As this patient is under the care of a consultant oncologist in the Mater Misericordiae Hospital, I have asked the hospital's chief executive officer to investigate the situation and to reply to the Deputy directly, as a matter of urgency.

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