Greater access to clinical trials for teens and young adults as cancer incidence rises in Ireland
Around 180-190 people between 16 and 25 years are diagnosed with cancer in Ireland every year.
Around 180-190 people between 16 and 25 years are diagnosed with cancer in Ireland every year.
Paul Arthurs has said that he’s been told it’s treatable.
The Gers have sent their best wishes to the 58-year-old former player.
The report notes that since CervicalCheck began in 2008, it has reduced the incidence of cervical cancer by 2.8% per year.
One year ago today, the newsreader and reporter was starting into cancer treatment just two weeks after becoming a mother for the first time.
The service said it will be more in line with England during this time, which screens women every three years.
He appeared in films including Coming To America and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
The National Cancer Registry Ireland 2021 report was published today.
Phelan said she is now receiving medication to treat her “symptoms”.
Joe Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, is currently being held in a Texas prison
The mother-of-two said she hopes chemotherapy will keep her alive ‘until Christmas at least’.
The 35-year-old mother was diagnosed with cervical cancer in December 2018.
The singer had breast cancer.
Stephen Donnelly said he expected the health service to see an increase in the number of patients presenting with cancer in the coming months.
The TV star and comedian died from cancer at home surrounded by his family.
Peter MacNamara has been battling prostate cancer since 2011 and has found immunotherapy via a clinical trial to be hugely helpful.
Bryce Evans and Terry Phelan pay tribute to the late Alan McLoughlin.
Consultant Gastroenterologist Professor Pádraic Mac Mathuna is calling on those aged 60-69 to register for bowel screening.
Inherited faulty genes play a major role in 5 to 10% of all cancers.
“My perception is that there is an increasing reluctance to tend for smears because they just feel there’s relatively little point,” Dr Charles Gillham told TheJournal.ie.
There have been calls for a State backed back-to-work scheme for cancer patents.
Dr Greg Korpanty of University Hospital Limerick on cancer treatment in Ireland during a pandemic.
The already approved drug could be used to treat more aggressive forms of breast cancer that don’t always respond to traditional chemotherapy.
She was the quiet half of a powerful partnership with the outgoing Marnie McBean.
Expert says linking IVF funding with the commencement of legislation is a ‘way of putting it off’.
After non melanoma skin cancer, the most common cancers in men are prostate cancer, bowel cancer and lung cancer.
Referrals and attendances at clinics dipped significantly at the start of the pandemic.
Purple House Cancer Support Centre received almost 3,000 calls to its helpline since March.
Out of 110,000 invitations, only 12,000 have come forward, according to CervicalCheck director.
To date this year, the society has received €2.8 million in legacy gifts.
That’s according to a new report published by the National Cancer Registry.
His family announced the shock news on social media.
It was reported today that a Department of Health briefing warns of a major backlog in cancer treatments.
Paul Reid said he has written to Paul Morrissey, Ruth’s husband, to offer an apology on behalf of the HSE.
Thousands of extra people could die in the next five years due to delays caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, researchers have found.
The popular, liberal judge said that she wouldn’t retire.
The HSE, the Irish Cancer Society, and the National Treatment Purchase Fund gave submissions to an Oireachtas Special Committee today.
Priority groups will receive letters from 6 July.
Cancer screening services will begin to return at the end of the month – but there is huge gap in referrals in the past 3 months.