Cycling legend Lance Armstrong, a cancer survivor, highlighted the danger of cancer at the international cancer summit in Dublin.

The National Cancer Registry says it expects more than 27,000 new cases of cancer to be diagnosed in Ireland this year.

Cancer cases increased almost 3% every year since the mid 1990s, it emerged tonight.

BRAIN tumour sufferers have been given new hope with the emergence of a new cancer treatment.

There are a number of shocking aspects to a new report on the occurrence of cancer in women, not least of which is that it has increased by 25% in a little over a decade.

Civil servants who retire are being rehired on a temporary basis because there is nobody trained to replace them.

One third of sunbed users in Ireland had their first tanning session before the age of 19, it was revealed today.

The diagnosis of pop star Kylie Minogue with breast cancer should not alarm young women, an Irish health group said today.

TIGER Woods chipped in and JP McManus drove the project along, helping to give cancer patients in the mid-west a shot at survival and a new life.

IRISH cancer research is to get up to €300,000 from funds raised by this year’s Terry Fox Runs that will take place all over Ireland on Sunday, October 17.