Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

It killed her father’s five siblings and left her a widow but personal brushes with cancer were not the motivation for Prof Kerri Clough-Gorr’s career choice. As Cancer Week Ireland gets underway, the Boston native and the new director of the National Cancer Registry talks to Health Correspondent Catherine Shanahan about vital statistics, unnecessary screening for prostate cancer, and why cancer clusters aren’t always what they seem

Plans for a new state of the art cancer institute will be jointly announced by Trinity College Dublin and St James’s Hospital later today.