Had a great day celebrating yesterday 🎊 such a huge milestone! I still can't believe I have graduated. Thank you @Maura1Dowling @DrDuyguSezgin1
Orlaith Cormican
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Mammy to Croía, Caoimhín and Saoirse 💗💙🩷 Running Widow, Lecturer TUS, RGN , PhD, Board Member MMI, Former CNS haematology, 🧘♀️. All views are my own.
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Multiple Myeloma Ireland have launched two grants - to fund research in Multiple Myeloma and AL Amyloidosis. If you are interested in submitting an application please see the link below @MyelomaIreland @HAINurses_AHPs multiplemyelomaireland.org/grants/ #researchgrant
Delighted to share my final publication from my thesis was published just before Christmas. This was an international cross sectional study with carers of individuals with a chronic blood cancer. It highlights that younger carers (18-40) have higher
Delighted to share that I successfully defended my PhD on Wednesday. Feels very surreal. Big thank you to my wonderful supervisors @Maura1Dowling @DrDuyguSezgin1 and to the examiners @houghtoncath @KEC83 for a very enjoyable process. Glad to be on the other side of it.
Thank you to @RTERadio1 for this discussion of cancer drug reimbursement in Ireland.View quoted post on X
Because private insurers and the public healthcare system (@HSELive) have different reimbursement criteria when it comes to newly @EMA_News-approved anti-cancer drugs, as things stand, cancer treatment will be increasingly different in public and private settings.
Currently cancer patients in private hospitals have more treatment options.
Not all @EMA_News approved cancer treatments should be reimbursed.
The first concern should be effectiveness, the second unmet clinical need, and the third, price.
These criteria should be assessed in public, in real-time.
Thank you to the @IrishCancerSoc for highlighting this disparity in drug access, it needs to change.
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