Agency put €80m in cancer research over past decade

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.

Agency put €80m in cancer research over past decade
Fri, 09 Sep, 2011 - 01:00
Vivion Kilfeather

The HRB is Ireland’s leading agency in supporting and funding research into the disease.

More than 3,000 patients have participated in cancer clinical trials and a further 2,000 in other cancer studies the conference at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) heard.

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