Moving skin cancer treatment to general practice may result in an excess of benign excisions and result in being less efficient and less cost effective, a new study shows.

The number of cancer survivors in Ireland is set to double from 173,000 to almost 350,000 over the next 25 years.

Helen O’Callaghan talks to two leading doctors who are driven to find targeted therapies with minimum long-term toxicities to treat childhood cancer.

All former health ministers stretching back over the last 15 years could be hauled before a cross-party Oireachtas committee to answer questions on the cervical cancer tests scandal.

The new cancer strategy has been unveiled, in a bid to reduce cancer rates in the next 10 years.

The relationships and sexuality education (RSE) programme in schools has played a key role in the 64% reduction in teen births over the past 15 years, the HSE has said.

TOM Keane is a man to whom anybody who gives a fig about the country should listen, says Michael Clifford.

Healthcare in Ireland faces an “apocalyptic scenario” if radical steps are not taken to change it, says cancer expert Dr Tom Keane.

The Irish Cancer Society has called for an immediate investigation into reports of surgical delays in some of Ireland’s designated cancer centres.

If being ‘ashamed’ and ‘heartbroken’ over hospital waiting lists is the best Simon Harris can offer, the issue will never be resolved, suggests Health Correspondent Catherine Shanahan.    

A year after the launch of the first National Maternity Strategy, key posts remain unfilled in the office set up to drive its implementation.

The problems of the Irish healthcare system are not too big to fix, the former director of the State’s cancer control programme told an Oireachtas committee.

GPs are sending non-urgent patients to hospital emergency departments in the hope they will get diagnostic tests for which they would otherwise have to wait up to two years.

Approximately 200 cancer patients have been warned they may have been given potentially contaminated chemotherapy drugs.

Politicians ignored problems in maternity hospitals for years, a medical expert has told the Oireachtas health committee.

There were 6,397 patients on trolleys in emergency departments around the country for more than 24 hours in June and July, 1,637 of whom were over 75 years of age.

Ireland has the third highest mortality rate from diseases of the respiratory system in the EU and lung cancer accounts for more than one third of such deaths.

The number of Irish women forced to undergo chemotherapy treatment for early stage breast cancer more than halved over an 18-month period, following the HSE’s approval of a new genetic test.

Demands on cancer treatment services will more than double over the next 25 years, a report warns.

The news that we can expect to see a doubling in the incidence of cancers by 2040 — just 25 years away — is hardly cheering, but that is no reason not to try to prepare for such an eventuality.

A national treatment centre for a rare form of cancer which claimed the lives of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and former Fine Gael deputy leader Jim Mitchell has been established here.

The Health Service Executive (HSE) has appointed chief executives to the six new hospital groups, with all the appointments taken from within existing health services.

All of the acute hospitals in Cork and Kerry have now introduced an electronic referral system for GPs referring patients for public outpatient hospital appointments as part of a HSE national pilot project.

People under the age of 18 will be banned from using sunbeds from Monday under measures announced by Health Minister Leo Varadkar

People under the age of 18 will not be allowed to use sunbeds from next Monday.

The appointment of the first female chief executive of Cork City Council was finally ratified last night.

There has been a 73% increase in Irish people seeking genetic tests after a family member is diagnosed with cancer, according to the National Cancer Control Programme (NCCP).

Cork’s city councillors took the unprecedented decision last night to defer the appointment of the city’s new chief executive.

The number of people diagnosed with mouth cancer has almost trebled in the past five years because of smoking, alcohol addiction, and changing sexual habits.

A leading cancer doctor has warned that failure to progress two long-awaited radiation oncology centres in Cork and Galway would deprive patients in the south and west of services already available in Dublin.

Close to 13,000 prostate cancer tests carried out on patients who attended Mayo General Hospital have to be reviewed after it emerged the test kits were faulty.

A lack of standardisation among PSA tests for prostate cancer is worrying medics and saw a patient at Connolly Hospital receive an artificially elevated reading.

Every time a new wonder drug for treating cancer comes on the market, the hopes of patients seeking a miracle cure are inevitably raised, only to be dashed amid controversy over the exorbitant cost of treatment.

Cancer survival rates have improved dramatically in the past decade, however, the number of women dying from lung cancer continues to rise.

The Health Service has launched a new app for women under thirty-five who are worried about breast pain and tenderness.

Women under the age of 50 at greater risk of breast cancer due to family history or genetic predisposition should be checked annually as part of an organised surveillance programme, according to the Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa).

The HSE is to spend €3.6m a year on new drugs to assist 230 patients with advanced forms of cancer.

The National Cancer Control Programme has announced that four new drugs are being made available in hospitals across the country to treat cancer.

The acting head of the HSE has been overpaid more than €160,000 since 2006.