IT’S OFTEN been said that we have a lot in common — Hollywood hunk Colin Farrell and I. Apart from the obvious similarities — the simmering intensity, the brooding good looks and the sheer natural talent — we have another thing in common after my recent visit to the scenic Beara Peninsula in West Cork.

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

The number of patients waiting for a potentially life-saving colonoscopy has jumped by more than 1,000 in a year.

The Irish Cancer Society has said it is time people stopped being embarrassed about bowel cancer.

WITH more than 1,000 people waiting more than three months for a colonoscopy, the Irish Cancer Society (ICS) has urged people to avail of the procedure under the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF).

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 MISTAKEN belief that breast cancer only runs in families or is limited to the over-50s are two of the main reasons women who notice a breast change fail to go to the doctor.

SUSPENDED in a harness and strapped to robotic legs, Bríd Courtney experiences a sensation commonplace to most of us, but singular to her.

ALMOST 1,500 family doctors and practice nurses have signed up as smear-takers for the free national cervical cancer screening service available to women since yesterday.

CANCER patients undergoing radiotherapy will be shown video images of treatment rooms in a DVD aimed at preparing them for therapy.

PUBLIC patients are waiting up to 10 weeks longer than those who can pay for cancer diagnostic tests, a new study reveals.

THE first steps are being taken by the Health Service Executive (HSE) towards the establishment of the long-awaited national cervical cancer screening service, it has been revealed.

The Irish Cancer Society has reiterated its call for the introduction of a national cervical screening programme.