{"id":283718,"date":"2026-02-06T10:07:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T10:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/283718\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T10:07:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T10:07:06","slug":"shocking-data-shows-cancer-patients-face-postcode-lottery-for-timely-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/283718\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Shocking&#8217; data shows cancer patients face postcode lottery for timely treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Some cancer patients have faster access to vital treatment and surgeries than those in hospitals in other regions, \u201cshocking\u201d data released by the Irish Cancer Society shows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The figures also show hospitals are hitting target times for certain cancers, but they are struggling to meet targets for others, indicating gaps internally as well as regionally.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some cancer patients have faster access to vital treatment and surgeries than those in hospitals in other regions,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1239,258,4888,103,397,396,2120,61,60,103050,21912,102926],"class_list":{"0":"post-283718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-breast-cancer","9":"tag-cancer","10":"tag-family","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-health-care","13":"tag-healthcare","14":"tag-hse","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-place-cork","18":"tag-place-limerick","19":"tag-place-waterford"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}