SKIN cancer is the most common form of cancer in Ireland, with the number of people suffering from it doubling over the last ten years.

BREAST cancer is the second most common cancer in Ireland (melanoma is the most common) with 3,000 people developing the disease each year.

Cancer patients will be hit with a €1,500 bill as public hospitals are now demanding daycare fees, it has emerged.

THE largest-ever prostate cancer survivor survey in Ireland has found men are making life-changing decisions without fully realising the severity of the physical and psychological side-effects.

NATIONAL guidelines, to ensure cancer support services are managed and delivered in the best way possible, have been published by the Irish Cancer Society (ICS).

MORE than 21,000 people affected by cancer were helped by the Irish Cancer Society last year, a 10% increase on calls made in 2009, new figures show.

More than 1,000 patients living in fear of having bowel cancer are waiting more than 12 weeks for a colonoscopy, it emerged tonight.

A MEDITERRANEAN diet has been linked with a lower breast cancer risk in a major study that followed almost 15,000 women for over a decade.

THE Irish Cancer Society’s (ICS) income has dropped by €2 million at a time when there is a growing cancer rate, it revealed.

THERE are worrying signs that waiting times for bowel cancer tests are starting to creep up again, the Irish Cancer Society said yesterday.

WITH over 900 people dying of bowel cancer in Ireland every year, and over half of patients presenting with the disease at a late stage, the Irish Cancer Society has nominated April as Ireland’s first Bowel Cancer Awareness Month.

PATIENTS are having to wait up to nine months for bowel cancer tests, instead of within six weeks of seeing their GP, research shows.

EVERYONE using a sunbed must sign a consent form under planned legislation on the use of the tanning machines, the Irish Cancer Society has urged.

BROTHER and sister Harry and Beth Prendergast are as close as any other siblings. But after today they will be even closer when four-year-old Harry donates bone marrow to his little sister.

The Irish Cancer Society has moved to calm public fears over new research revealing your morning fry could prove terminal.

A THIRD of Irish men are not aware of the symptoms of the most common forms of male cancers, while more than half have done nothing in the past two years to detect signs of the disease.

NOT enough is being done to help people cope with the life-changing experience of having a brain tumour, a support group has claimed.

A REVOLUTIONARY lung cancer therapy, now available in Ireland for the first time, should boost cure rates and reduce healing times.

A €3 MILLION target has been set for this year’s Daffodil Day fundraiser — to pay for vital services for the country’s rapidly growing number of cancer patients.

THE new cervical cancer vaccine could be lulling women into a false sense of security, a medical expert warned yesterday.

MOLECULAR fingerprinting of an individual’s lung cancer may help in tailoring therapy and predicting outcome, studies presented at an international medical conference in Dublin yesterday suggest.

IRELAND is the only country in western Europe where deaths from cervical cancer continue to increase.

AN intensive campaign by the Irish Cancer Society (ICS) has been blamed for pushing the country’s cervical screening programme to a point where the Health Service Executive had to send tens of thousands of tests to the United States to be analysed.

DEMAND for platelets has increased by more than 50% in the past five years, mainly due to the number of new cancer cases, it was revealed yesterday at the launch of a campaign to raise awareness of platelet donation.

PLANS for the roll-out of a national cervical screening programme will be unveiled at today’s launch of the Strategy for Cancer Control in Ireland.

NEW vaccines against cervical cancer have been described as a historic breakthrough by the Irish Cancer Society (ICS).

NEW cancer cases are expected to increase by 50% over the next 15 years, the Irish Cancer Society announced yesterday