Up to 2,000 invasive cancers may have been missed last year due to the impact of Covid-19, an Oireachtas committee has been told. She told the committee that figures imply diagnoses last year were at least 10 per cent lower, meaning potentially 2,000 invasive cancers went undiagnosed. “We don’t have the safety systems in place to deliver a safe diagnosis at the moment,” he told Sinn Féin health spokesman David Cullinane. Earlier, Prof Landers told Fine Gael TD Colm Burke that the attack had set cancer services back “months, not weeks”. Ms Power told the Dublin North West TD that “”if we’re not actually collecting the data, it’s really difficult to hold the Government to account”.

Source: The Irish Times June 02, 2021 10:07 UTC