Cancer in a cold climate

By Enid O'Dowd

Subjects: St. Luke's Hospital (Dublin, Ireland), Health and Fitness, Health and fitness, Hospital closures, Cancer, Hospitals, Prevention

Description: We are working towards developing one of the most advanced networks of radiation oncology in the world' National Cancer Control Programme press office But in a revealing chapter entitled Big business: behind the plan to close St Luke's, health analyst and contributor, Marie O'Connor, says: 'Cancer sufferers will soon be treated like commodities, sold off, in effect, to the lowest bidder'. This is the backdrop to Cancer in a Cold Climate, a book about the struggle to save St Luke's Hospital, a beacon of medical care and spiritual sustenance for cancer sufferers and their families for over ha.