Former Clare hurler and leukaemia survivor Ger Loughnane will this week launch a major campaign by a Cork charity to fundraise for groundbreaking cancer research.

Piling on the pounds over several decades increases the risk of obesity-related cancers by 50% in men and by 20% in women, research has shown.

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.

A pioneering drug to treat an inherited cancer could be the beginning of personalised tumour treatments.