Debate contribution: Breast Cancer Targets
Debate contribution by Mr Robbie Butler on .
- MLA
- Mr Robbie Butler
- Party at the time
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Date
- 21 September 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Breast Cancer Targets
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5742331
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I thank the Member for his question. Without even looking at my notes, let me say that any delay for anyone who has had a cancer diagnosis is too long. I do not think that I am speaking out of shop when I say that just about everybody in the Chamber will know someone who has been diagnosed with cancer and has heard those words. There is no doubt that cancer red flags remain a priority for the Department of Health. We will take steps in every regard, whether on breast cancer or anything else. Your colleague who was in the Chamber earlier submitted question 7 on the steps that we are taking on oesophageal cancer, which we did not get to. I make a commitment to the Member that breast cancer is one of the ones that we are looking at forensically to try to ensure that we can give the earliest care possible to those who need it.
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