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.

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.