Dr. Sinead Lynch

Thanks, David.

Of approaching kind of how to support.

Yeah.

I mean, like psycho-oncology as a field has been around since the late 70s.

In the matter, we started the service in 2021, but it's been in different hospitals like Vincent's and James's for the last 20 years.

And there's loads of community cancer support centres.

So I think it's about building awareness.

You know, obviously there is funding and we're funded by the NCCP, but...

I mean, to answer your question, how do you go about it?

I guess it's about asking and about informing the medical teams so that the medical teams are treating the patient as a whole person.

So like that, I had a patient the other day and she just said, I had a really bad day having chemo.

I was in the chemo ward and my nurse said to me, you know, you're not yourself today.

Are you linked with the psycho-oncology service?

And she said, I am.

And thanks for checking in.

You know, so it's their awareness that actually works.

we are treating the whole person.

And that's really important.

Well, like that, again, there was it was a research trial.

It was funded by the Irish Cancer Society.