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The Coeliac Society of Ireland has published a guide to how you can change your diet to reduce the risk of developing cancer.

Record waiting lists within our health service are resulting in delays in finding seven to 10 invasive cancers every day, local Independent Depputy Denis Naughten has informed An Taoiseach in the Dáil.

Lung screening should be added to Ireland’s list of cancer screening programmes to help save more lives, the Irish Cancer Society has urged.

In a first for Ireland, a patient at St James’s Hospital in Dublin has received a cell therapy treatment for lymphoma. This is a significant development for blood cancer patients and is the first time Chimeric Antigen Receptor –T cell (CAR-T) therapy is being delivered in Ireland.

Fianna Fáil Galway City East councillor, Alan Cheevers, is calling for the screening age for bowel cancer to be reduced from its current age range of 60 to 69, to 50 to 69 instead.

A special fundraising concert in aid of the National Breast Cancer Research Institute takes place in the Salthill Hotel on November 28.

This November, men and women within local communities, and throughout the country, will be performing a jaw-dropping 100 squats a day - that’s a grand total of 3000 squats - in aid of breast cancer care at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital.

This year’s Great Pink Run virtual event has raised almost €650,000 in essential funding for vital breast cancer research, through an incredible global event which saw 8,359 individual #PinkTribe participants, including runners, joggers, and walkers of all ages taking part from all over the globe over the weekend of 16 and 17 October, with people from no less than 23 countries participating.

There is no doubt that 2020 was a challenging year for everyone and, as highlighted in their recently launched 2020 Annual Report, Cancer Care West was no exception. Documenting the exceptional year, the charity highlighted their efforts to keep their most vital services open so anxious and isolated cancer sufferers had a place to go, especially when many other services were closed.

A childhood cancer diagnosis can cause an average hit of €15,300 to annual family incomes on top of other crippling added expenses, new research from the Irish Cancer Society reveals.