Elle Macpherson doubles down on her claim that a ‘great attitude to life’ can keep cancer at bay
What people like Macpherson – who claims that she cured cancer ‘holistically’ – forget is that arsenic, cyanide, and uranium are ‘natural’ too
Cancer
Manchán Magan on living with cancer: ‘Death is something I’ve always been very comfortable with’
The presenter and self-described ‘oddball loner’ is bursting with energy despite his ‘more serious than normal’ prostate cancer
‘The public need to be wary’: Elle Macpherson’s breast cancer story missing crucial details, experts warn
Australian supermodel reported to have treated her cancer with alternative therapies
Childhood cancer: ‘As soon as the ultrasound was turned on, they could see the tumour – it was large’
Even the end of treatment does not spell the end of parental anxiety, and a new peer-support network is being launched to help parents cope with what comes next
Surviving multiple myeloma: ‘I am taking life by the scruff of the neck’
When mother of four and business owner Mags Kirwan was diagnosed with a form of blood cancer, she found solace in family and a positive mental attitude
Coleen Nolan on grief: ‘I used to get angry at people passing me that were having a laugh’
Singer and TV presenter on how her sister Bernie guided her even after death, and how to treat friends who have been bereaved
Anne Gildea: ‘I’m 58 and had two get-your-affairs-in order moments. Now I feel like a lucky person’
The comedian Anne Gildea on love, health and not giving up
Man sentenced over ‘despicable and shameful’ fraudulent cancer GoFundMe page
Page for Stephen Patrick Doherty raised £3,280, which he spent on a dog and travelling to Liverpool matches
Cancer outcomes in North worst in UK as cases continue to rise
'Northern Ireland is of at the bottom of the international league table for cancer policy consistency' – Mark Lawler, professor of digital health at Queen’s University
Palliative care is about so much more than end of life
Many patients could benefit from an approach that focuses on the whole person rather than just their disease
Plain packaging worked to reduce smoking. Unhealthy food should be next
Removing branding from cigarette boxes has reduced smoking among young people. We must now do the same with unhealthy food and drinks as childhood obesity can trigger disease in later life
Hiqa to consider extending colorectal cancer screening
Colorectal cancer accounts for an average of about 1,000 deaths a year in Ireland
When is a cancer not a cancer?
When caught early many cancers, including certain types of breast, prostate, testicular and thyroid cancers, have survival rates of up to 98%
Bone cancer at 16: ‘When you find out, there is a moment of why me? Why now?’
GAA fanatic Jodie Weldon was 16 years old when she was diagnosed with osteosarcoma
Chemotherapy combination highly successful in curing testicular cancer, research finds
Testicular cancer is diagnosed in about 170 men in Ireland every year
Tennis superstar Chris Evert recovered from cancer. Then it came back, and she did it again
The former tennis champion is working as a broadcaster at Wimbledon again this year
Joe Duffy’s Liveline conversation seems designed to play on men’s worst fears
Radio: If the Liveline conversation seems designed to play on men’s worst fears, it ultimately eschews sensationalism in favour of salutary advice
Cancer, circulatory diseases make up more than half of all deaths in State in 2021, CSO shows
Local Electoral Areas Ennistimon, Belmullet and Connemara North had highest rate of neoplasm deaths in country
Life in your 80s: ‘When I meet my friends, we have the organ recital, where we list our ailments and recount hospital appointments’
Life can be tough as physical health declines, and you can start to feel invisible as you age – but has its upsides
‘Gamechanger’ drug that ‘melts away’ tumours could replace surgery for bowel cancer, say doctors
Pembrolizumab targets and blocks a specific protein on the surface of immune cells that then seek out and destroy cancer cells
‘We can’t even cry any more, it is too much’: Cancer, lightning, bereavement and scam leave mother of three bereft
‘What the Butlers have endured in both personal tragedy and financial misfortune is beyond imagination,’ supporter says
Ireland’s two-tier cancer drug system: ‘I can give one drug to one lot of patients, not to another’
Public patients face ‘huge delays’ on cancer drugs, a poorer quality of life and a poorer chance of survival
Tobacco sales: Raising legal age to 21 should be ‘stepping stone’ to complete phase-out, charity says
Irish Heart Foundation says decision to increase to 21 the age at which a person can legally be sold tobacco ‘one of the most important public health measures’
‘Dad has cancer’: the words felt wrong in my mouth, like I was lying
My parents weren’t supposed to get cancer for at least another 20 years. Not until I was back in Dublin and finished looking after small children
HSE approves new treatment option for people with breast cancer at high-risk of recurrence
The drug, called abemaciclib, reduces chance of cancer returning by more than 30%
I spent my maternity leave in a chemo chair. Then I got a letter telling me to go back to work
I finished active treatment on April 30th and got a letter from the Department of Social Protection a week later saying my maternity leave was up. Surely they did not expect this sick, bald woman to return to work now?
Bowel cancer: ‘I truly know what it means to live and am genuinely loving life’
Jane McCoy, who was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2021, went to her doctor after weeks of bloating and stomach pains
‘Real hope’ for cancer cure as personal mRNA vaccine for melanoma trialled
Therapy could be custom-built for each patient affected by what is the biggest skin cancer killer
‘Never been as much investment’ in cancer services, says Donnelly, as specialists call for more
Open letter from clinicians warns target waiting times not being met and surgeries ‘frequently delayed’ due to staff and bed shortages
Target waiting times for cancer tests not being met, specialists warn
Open letter to Taoiseach points to insufficient investment in infrastructure, and radiotherapy services operating ‘significantly below’ capacity
New measures to tackle alarming rise in gastrointestinal cancers among 25-50 age group
Global phenomenon is ‘a puzzle, not yet figured out’, says consultant oncologist
Record medicine shortages expose world’s broken market
Record shortages of common drugs have countries scrambling for alternatives while patients skip treatments
Britain’s King Charles ‘frustrated’ by cancer recovery pace, says nephew
Comments from Peter Phillips follow recent announcement Princess Kate is undergoing preventive chemotherapy
‘We were told he had leukaemia . . . I became his full-time nurse, carer, counsellor, you name it’
Louisa McEleney went into ‘fight mode’ upon hearing her son Alex’s diagnosis. Seven years later, he is still undergoing treatment but getting on with his life
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