A top cancer specialist has described the decision not to make a new vaccine against cervical cancer available to women on the medical card scheme as 'ethically dubious' and nonsensical on financial grounds.
Dr John Crown, consultant medical oncologist at St Vincent's University Hospital, said he feared that the decision was being taken on the basis of cost, despite the fact that the vaccine had been proven to prevent cancers and pre-cancers.
The product, Gardasil, is available privately in Ireland and is administered in three separate doses.
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