{"id":277045,"date":"2026-02-06T10:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T10:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/277045\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T10:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T10:09:07","slug":"shocking-data-shows-cancer-patients-face-postcode-lottery-for-timely-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/277045\/","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":277046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[10986,165,501,163,521,6151,85,46,142994,19512,142995],"class_list":["post-277045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-breast-cancer","tag-cancer","tag-family","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-hse","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-place-cork","tag-place-limerick","tag-place-waterford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}