Examine Yourself: We can all do more to avert cancer

It may not be immediately apparent to the 40,000 Irish people identified as having one form or another of cancer each year that the disease has become, if not a good news story, then a situation where possibility is an ever-more dominant presence.

Science has turned what was not so very long ago a sentence into something far less bleak. Cancer is no longer an opening sentence in a concluding chapter. It is still a huge challenge but one more and more people overcome to live long, full, happy lives.