As Regional Director of Cancer Services in Southwest Dublin, and based at St. James’s Hospital and Trinity College Dublin, I sought to establish prospective cancer data-bases for all 16 tumour sites managed in three major hospitals in the region, the principal centre being at St. James’s Hospital. I worked with Peter Walton and the Dendrite team to this end. We provided a 5-year audit report in 2006, and are currently preparing a 10 year report.

Professor John V Reynolds (MCh, FRCSI), Professor of Surgery, Department of Clinical Surgery, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland