Just over 1,000 men were diagnosed with prostate cancer in the National Cancer Control Programme Rapid Access Clinics last year. The newly established clinics saw 2,583 men and 1,050 were diagnosed with the disease.

The Health Service Executive (HSE) has appointed chief executives to the six new hospital groups, with all the appointments taken from within existing health services.

Death rates from breast cancer are highest in Waterford, the suicide rate in Cork City outstrips anywhere else, and Limerick City has the highest infant mortality rate.

The HSE is to spend €3.6m a year on new drugs to assist 230 patients with advanced forms of cancer.

RTÉ journalist Tommie Gorman has played a leading role in establishing a support group for people with a rare cancer that he has been dealing with for almost 20 years.

Cancer survival in Ireland could improve by up to 10% with well-organised cancer control systems, according to the head of the National Cancer Control Programme.

Patients will not ever again get lost in the system, health chiefs have promised after launching a national online GP referral system.

THE HSE has moved to defend prostate cancer service standards after concerns were raised by the independent Irish Cancer Society (ICS).

THE largest-ever prostate cancer survivor survey in Ireland has found men are making life-changing decisions without fully realising the severity of the physical and psychological side-effects.

OVER €80 million had been invested in cancer research here over the past decade by the Health Research Board (HRB), a world conference on the life-threatening disease was told in Dublin yesterday.

NEWS that pancreatic cancer treatment services will remain in Cork and not be centralised to Dublin has come as a relief to sufferers living in Munster.