NO clear favourite has emerged with the bookies as to the likely winner of the 20th annual Cork Person of the Year award, which will be announced later this week.

ONE of the country’s top cancer scientists has won Junior Chamber International’s most outstanding young person of the year award.

A BACTERIA commonly found in probiotic yoghurt could revolutionise the battle against cancer, groundbreaking research has shown.

RESEARCHERS at the Cork Cancer Research Centre have made a global breakthrough by devising a potential DNA vaccine against prostate cancer.

TRANSITION Year students in several Cork schools are to be taught a new education programme aimed at creating a greater awareness of cancer.