Action Breast Cancer is hoping to take a big step towards achieving its €650,000 fundraising target today.

NICOTINE either absorbed by smoking cigarettes or inhaling second-hand smoke may promote tumour growth and the spread of breast cancer, a study has found.

THE number of women diagnosed with breast cancer is set to double over the next 13 years with 4,700 new cases annually by 2020, experts said yesterday.

Catherine Shanahan

MORE than one in four Irish women never check their breasts for symptoms of breast cancer, the Irish Cancer Society has warned.