Lack of media interest in lung cancer, says charity

THE Irish media’s “lack of interest” in lung cancer and its constant association of the illness with tobacco is preventing the promotion of treatment advances and services for sufferers, claims the Irish Cancer Society (ICS).

The ICS has conducted analysis of articles referring to breast, prostate and lung cancer and found that though the five-year lung cancer survival rate is only 10% and the disease is the main cancer death in Ireland, it does not get corresponding coverage.

The survey of all Irish daily and Sunday newspapers and national magazines found: