784. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Health if patients diagnosed with melanoma in the public health system here are only offered immunotherapy when in stage IV of the illness; the reason such treatment is not offered at stage III in view of the fact that half of patients at this stage advance to the next; his views on whether more lives would be saved if persons were offered such treatment earlier; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that adjuvant immunotherapy nivolumab, pembrolizumab and targeted therapy are available to some with private health insurance here but the public health service is not funding the medications; his further views on whether this is consistent with the goals of the National Cancer Strategy; and his plans to improve stage III melanoma treatments. [14210/20]

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784. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Health if patients diagnosed with melanoma in the public health system here are only offered immunotherapy when in stage IV of the illness; the reason such treatment is not offered at stage III in view of the fact that half of patients at this stage advance to the next; his views on whether more lives would be saved if persons were offered such treatment earlier; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that adjuvant immunotherapy nivolumab, pembrolizumab and targeted therapy are available to some with private health insurance here but the public health service is not funding the medications; his further views on whether this is consistent with the goals of the National Cancer Strategy; and his plans to improve stage III melanoma treatments. [14210/20]

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