CAMPAIGNERS seeking radiotherapy services for the south-east have called on the Government to reverse its decision to centralise cancer care after an expert report recommended regional centres be provided.

CANCER patients who were forced to travel from the south-east to Dublin for radiotherapy have died less than 24 hours after receiving treatment due to the strain of the journey.

IRELAND has one of the worst records in Europe for lung health because the State has refused to give respiratory illness the priority it deserves, a medical expert said yesterday.

THE Department of Health has shelved the first stage in a plan to introduce a national screening programme that would save lives from bowel cancer, a medical expert spearheading the project has claimed.

THE most effective way of delivering regional cancer services has been undermined by local politics, an expert evaluation of the Government's National Cancer Strategy has found.

THERE is a new breast cancer diagnosis made every five hours in Ireland, according to the Irish Cancer Society.