English: In May, I called on the Welsh Government to develop a bespoke women's health strategy for Wales. Such a strategy should focus on closing the gender gaps in healthcare, providing consistent investment, support and treatment into women's health. But, today's debate again exemplifies that there's so much work to be done still. Even before the COVID pandemic, which at times can feel is being blamed for everything, Wales was experiencing significant gaps in the diagnostic and cancer workforce, in imaging, in endoscopy, pathology, non-surgical oncology. The NHS has relied, has it not, on the goodwill of its workforce to keep services running. In July this year, figures told us that just 34 per cent of gynaecological cancers met the suspected cancer pathway target of starting treatment within 62 days from the point of suspected cancer in Wales. This falls far behind the target of 75 per cent of people starting treatment within 62 days. In 2017, the then Assembly's Petitions Committee produced a report calling for a public-facing ovarian cancer awareness campaign in Wales. To date, there has been no specific awareness campaign on ovarian cancer, despite low levels of awareness of the symptoms of ovarian cancer in Wales. Nearly 400 women in Wales are diagnosed with ovarian cancer each year. Well over half of them will die of ovarian cancer in Wales each year. If there's no public awareness campaign, if there's no general awareness of ovarian cancer, including the common symptoms, when people should seek medical advice, then those who have the cancer go undetected and untreated, and early detection, as I say, is critical. Target Ovarian Cancer wants to shorten the diagnostic pathway. Now, currently, individual tests are carried out separately, leaving women waiting longer for a diagnosis. We want to see the relevant tests carried out at the same time, allowing women to be diagnosed faster.
Welsh: Ym mis Mai, gelwais ar Lywodraeth Cymru i ddatblygu strategaeth iechyd menywod bwrpasol ar gyfer Cymru. Dylai strategaeth o'r fath ganolbwyntio ar gau'r bylchau rhwng y rhywiau mewn gofal iechyd, gan ddarparu buddsoddiad, cefnogaeth a thriniaeth gyson i iechyd menywod. Ond mae'r ddadl heddiw eto yn dangos bod cymaint o waith i'w wneud o hyd. Hyd yn oed cyn y pandemig COVID, sydd ar adegau yn gallu teimlo fel pe bai'n cael y bai am bopeth, roedd Cymru'n gweld bylchau sylweddol yn y gweithlu diagnostig a chanser, mewn delweddu, mewn endosgopi, patholeg, oncoleg anfeddygol. Mae'r GIG wedi dibynnu, onid yw, ar ewyllys da ei weithlu i gadw gwasanaethau'n weithredol. Ym mis Gorffennaf eleni, dywedodd y ffigurau wrthym mai dim ond 34 y cant o ganserau gynaecolegol a gyrhaeddodd darged y llwybr lle'r amheuir canser i ddechrau triniaeth o fewn 62 diwrnod i'r pwynt lle'r amheuir canser yng Nghymru. Mae hyn ymhell islaw'r targed o 75 y cant o bobl yn dechrau triniaeth o fewn 62 diwrnod. Yn 2017, lluniodd Pwyllgor Deisebau'r Cynulliad ar y pryd adroddiad a oedd yn galw am ymgyrch i godi ymwybyddiaeth o ganser yr ofari ymhlith y cyhoedd yng Nghymru. Hyd yma, ni fu unrhyw ymgyrch ymwybyddiaeth benodol ar ganser yr ofari, er gwaethaf lefelau isel o ymwybyddiaeth o symptomau canser yr ofari yng Nghymru. Mae bron i 400 o fenywod yng Nghymru yn cael diagnosis o ganser yr ofari bob blwyddyn. Bydd ymhell dros eu hanner yn marw o ganser yr ofari yng Nghymru bob blwyddyn. Os nad oes ymgyrch ymwybyddiaeth gyhoeddus, os nad oes ymwybyddiaeth gyffredinol o ganser yr ofari, gan gynnwys y symptomau cyffredin, pryd y dylai pobl ofyn am gyngor meddygol, nid yw'r rhai sydd â'r canser yn cael eu canfod a'u trin, ac mae canfod yn gynnar, fel y dywedais, yn hanfodol. Mae Target Ovarian Cancer eisiau cwtogi'r llwybr diagnostig. Nawr, ar hyn o bryd, mae profion unigol yn cael eu cynnal ar wahân, gan adael menywod yn aros yn hirach am ddiagnosis. Rydym am weld y profion perthnasol yn cael eu cynnal ar yr un pryd, gan ganiatáu i fenywod gael diagnosis yn gynt.