{"id":478898,"date":"2026-05-11T09:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T09:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/478898\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T09:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T09:04:12","slug":"expert-warns-health-minister-that-treatment-for-prostate-cancer-is-suboptimal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/478898\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert warns health minister that treatment for prostate cancer is \u2018suboptimal\u2019"},"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\">\u2018Life-changing\u2019 radioligland therapy inaccessible to many patients here\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/N Councillor Jennif.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)\">Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill<\/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 leading cancer expert has warned the health minister \u201cthe management of prostate cancer in Ireland is suboptimal\u201d because a groundbreaking treatment with life-changing effects is unavailable here.<\/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)\">In a damning letter sent to Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, nuclear medicine expert Professor Martin O\u2019Connell called for a \u201cculture change\u201d in the health service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Life-changing\u2019 radioligland therapy inaccessible to many patients here Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill A leading cancer expert has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[3496,18,135,60,19,17,5002,4892],"class_list":{"0":"post-478898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-department-of-health","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-hse","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-jennifer-carroll-macneill","15":"tag-wayne-oconnor"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478898","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=478898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}