The healthcare system could save more than €760k over the next 10 years if survivors of prostate cancer were offered follow-up care with their GPs instead of hospital-based clinicians, according to research.

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

People suffering from stomach, ovarian, and kidney cancers are more likely to die early in Ireland than almost anywhere else in Europe.

The incidence of cancer in Ireland is expected to double by 2040, according to a new report.

Colorectal cancer is now the second most common cancer in Irish men and the third most common in women.

Assailants fired rockets at a refugee camp for an Iranian exile group outside Baghdad, killing six people and wounding more than 40.

About one-third of cancer patients face money worries paying for the cost of their care, campaigners revealed today..

INCIDENTS of malignant melanoma, the most threatening form of skin cancer, have risen by 80% in 10 years among adults under 50, according to figures from the National Cancer Registry (NCRI).

ABOUT 10,000 people sought information and advice on prostate health from the Irish Cancer Society (ICS) in the past three years, with men making more than 80% of the enquiries.

Incidents of male breast cancer in Ireland more than doubled in a two-year period, statistics show.

FOR the first time in Ireland, the hidden financial costs of being a cancer patient will be scrutinised in two large-scale studies.

BOB GELDOF walked away from a demonstration on Iran after hearing that one of the groups involved was on the UN’s terrorist list.

IRAN obtained weapons-grade uranium and a design for a nuclear bomb from a Pakistani scientist who has admitted to selling nuclear secrets abroad, an exiled Iranian opposition group said yesterday.

IRAN said yesterday that nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei would visit Tehran for talks on Thursday, just two weeks before a deadline for Iran to dispel US-led doubts about its nuclear ambitions expires.

A VACCINE for advanced prostate cancer could be undergoing final trials in less than two years.

THREE men set themselves on fire in Europe to protest a French crackdown on the People’s Mujahedeen, but the leader of the Iranian opposition group urged supporters to end the spate of self-immolations.