HSE urged to fund cancer risk clinics

UP TO one in 10 cases of breast and ovarian cancer diagnosed every year are hereditary, a conference heard yesterday, yet there is no permanent funding for cancer risk services.

Hereditary cancer is suspected when cancer is diagnosed in two or more close relatives on the same side of the family at an early age.

While most cancer risk clinics are based in major cancer care centres they are funded by grants, and have no permanent funding.