Galway Bay fm newsroom - An initiative aimed at providing the best possible care for young adults and adolescents with cancer in Ireland aims to deliver on their unique and distinct needs, with plans for a specialist unit at UHG.
A new HSE Framework will see a state of the art cancer care network delivered locally where possible, and centralised when necessary.
It would involve three new specialist units at St James's Hospital in Dublin, University Hospital Galway and Cork University Hospital.
Around 200 children up to the age of 16 are diagnosed every year with cancer, and a further 180 to 190 adolescents between 16 and 25 years are diagnosed every year.
The National Clinical Lead for Children, Adolescent and Young Adult Cancers at National Cancer Control Programme, Professor Owen Smith says the framework will result in better outcomes for those diagnosed with cancer.
