{"id":32372,"date":"2025-08-30T06:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T06:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/32372\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T06:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T06:40:09","slug":"the-nurses-became-your-family-the-lasting-impact-of-the-pandemic-for-cancer-patients-and-treatment-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/32372\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The nurses became your family\u2019 \u2013 the lasting impact of the pandemic for cancer patients and treatment rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Aont\u00fa TD Peadar T\u00f3ib\u00edn, who was diagnosed with skin cancer in early 2021, has questioned if delays in care are behind rising chemotherapy rates, while a mum of two treated during Covid shares her story\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Caitriona Greene,  with her husband Cathal Diver and daughters Dorothy and Mary Brigid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Cancer case study.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Caitriona Greene,  with her husband Cathal Diver and daughters Dorothy and Mary Brigid<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A record number of new patients are receiving chemotherapy treatment for cancer across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It is possible that the figures are part of the collateral damage of the Covid pandemic, and knock-on effects from disruption to healthcare as the virus gripped the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aont\u00fa TD Peadar T\u00f3ib\u00edn, who was diagnosed with skin cancer in early 2021, has questioned if delays in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[275],"tags":[18,135,475,474,19,17,21535],"class_list":{"0":"post-32372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-health-care","11":"tag-healthcare","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-living-with-cancer"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}