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Ennis Councillor Expressed Disappointment Over Breastcheck Figures For Clare

An Ennis Councillor has expressed disappointment over the low level of women availing of the chance to detect breast cancer.

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The most recent figures from BreastCheck, the country's national screening programme, show just over 70 per cent of women in Clare attended a clinic for a mammogram between 2012 and 2013.

The Breastcheck mobile unit is due back in Clare in March next year and will screen women there for one year.

Councillor Mary Howard was among those who campaigned for the service to made available here and she's been telling me that she's deeply disappointed over the figures.

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