Irish cancer rate second highest in world

IRELAND has some of the highest cancer rates in the world.

Figures compiled by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) show Ireland’s cancer rates are continuing to dwarf those in other regions.

According to the findings, based on age-standardised 2008 WHO statistics, at 317 cases per 100,000 people, this country currently has the second highest diagnoses of all forms of cancer out of 50 nations analysed worldwide. These figures put us below only Denmark at 326 cases per 100,000.