New trial boosts cancer recovery among women in Ireland
Patients placed on Linking You to Support and Advice programme found to have enjoyed significantly improved quality of life
Irish Cancer Society
How Ireland performs within the EU in the screening, prevention and treatment of cancer
Our cancer mortality rates are still 5.4 per cent higher than the EU average but have improved significantly in recent years
‘I’m very lucky’: How a delayed hospital appointment turned out to be good fortune
Irish Cancer Society’s Daffodil Day fundraising aims to raise more than €6m
‘A Daffodil angel, as I called her, walked into a house full of very sad people’
Almost 9,800 deaths every year in Ireland are as a consequence of cancer
Irish Cancer Society provided ‘almost 30,000 free lifts to treatment in 2025’
Society chief signals urgency of raising €30m to continue delivering services to patients
Significant rise in throat cancers among men related to HPV, campaigners say
Rates of vaccination have fallen in recent years, warns national coalition
Young onset cancer: ‘The only symptom I had was a really bad pain. I couldn’t believe it’
There has been a rise in cancer diagnoses among under-50s, and getting cancer at a young age brings added challenges
‘Life was busy and full, then everything stopped,’ says mum-of-four diagnosed with cancer
Clinical progress made over the past few years marks hopeful development
Lung cancer pilot programme identifies some patients before symptoms appear
Irish Cancer Society-funded pilot programme pinpoints patients early
BreastCheck to miss screening target for third year in a row
Early detection crucial as breast cancer remains most common cancer among women in Ireland
Increasing number of younger women diagnosed with breast cancer, committee told
Demand for cancer services on rise due to ageing population and growing complexity of treatment
Living with cancer in Ireland: ‘We’ve moved from a one-size-fits-all treatment’
More than 220,000 people in Ireland are living with or after cancer, a 50 per cent increase from a decade ago
Buying a home after surviving cancer: ‘No matter how much paperwork I gave, it never sufficed for mortgage protection’
Programme for Government aims to require mortgage protection companies to disregard cancer diagnoses seven years after treatment, although doctors give ‘all-clear’ after five years
Patient had to wait 169 days for ‘urgent’ appointment at Mater hospital breast cancer clinic
Irish Cancer Society data shows many women not getting an appointment within target time frame of 10 working days
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