Breakthrough in cervical cancer detection

RESEARCHERS believe they have found a way to identify women at risk of developing the worst form of cervical cancer, an illness which kills almost 100 Irish women every year.

A major cancer conference taking place in Cork city has heard that new details on how the condition develops means doctors can now clarify whether a patient will become ill or have benign effects by testing certain enzymes.

The joint Trinity College Dublin and Coombe Women and Children’s University Hospital study, led by Irish Cancer Society (ICS) research scholar Christine White, was detailed at the Irish Association of Cancer Research annual general meeting in Rochestown yesterday.