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There's A Warning Ireland Could See Up To 1,800 Additional Cancer Deaths Over The Next 12 Months

Rebecca Noonan
Rebecca Noonan

10:21 10 May 2020


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Fianna Fail's health spokesperson Stephen Donnelly has raised concern about a 56% drop in GP referrals to cancer clinics

That's since the outbreak of Covid-19.

In the Sunday Times, he's warning the trend could result in Ireland having more additional deaths than Covid-19 fatalities over a year.

Consultant medical oncologist at St. Vincent’s Private Hospital, Professor John Crown hopes that can be avoided:

There's A Warning Ireland Could See Up To 1,800 Additional Cancer Deaths Over The Next 12 Months

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