Meet the woman at the forefront of the battle with cancer, the biggest killer of them all

It killed her father’s five siblings and left her a widow but personal brushes with cancer were not the motivation for Prof Kerri Clough-Gorr’s career choice. As Cancer Week Ireland gets underway, the Boston native and the new director of the National Cancer Registry talks to Health Correspondent Catherine Shanahan about vital statistics, unnecessary screening for prostate cancer, and why cancer clusters aren’t always what they seem

Q: Were you always interested in cancer?

A: I always thought I would go to medical school but, like happens to most women, life took hold of me, and I had a family and medicine seemed like it would be inconvenient to my family.