BREASTCHECK, the national breast cancer screening service, has moved to reassure women in light of the current controversies over cancer testing and health funding.

A MALAISE at the core of our public services surfaced in a recurring theme this week.

THE Government must urgently fund the country’s specialist breast clinics as many are not properly staffed or equipped, according to breast cancer experts.

UP to 10,000 cancer patients, relatives and their friends marched in Co Donegal in protest at the area’s lack of cancer of services, which they blamed on their “geographic and political isolation”.

Health experts today demanded a thorough assessment of treatment for prostate cancer sufferers as a study showed one in 14 men in Ireland will be diagnosed with the disease during their lives.

THE body count will continue to rise in Monaghan, community activists claimed last night, because the local hospital must continue to function without emergency surgery.

A senior doctor at Cavan General Hospital today denied that the surgical unit was in a dysfunctional state.

DEATHS caused by trauma could be cut by a third through proper care in the immediate aftermath of serious injury, according to the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI).