GUH TO BECOME OESOPHAGEAL SATELLITE CENTRE

Date Published: 11-Jul-2012

Galway University Hospitals is to become one of three satellite centres providing oesophageal and gastric cancer care.

GUH, Beaumont Hospital and Cork University Hospital will provide the cancer services alongside St. James's hospital which is designated the national centre.

Between 2008 and 2011, 41 patents had radical surgery for oesophageal cancer at Galway University Hospitals.

Patients will continue to have access to radical surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy in all three satellite centres.