Analysis carried out by the Irish Cancer Society has shown that delays in cancer care — specifically for breast, lung, and prostate cancer patients — are causing deaths which are avoidable. The data analysed comes from the national cancer control programme and shows differences in treatment times between cancer centres for the first time.

Those differences mean delays. 

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