Cancer

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%

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

Love alone won’t keep my son tethered to me. This still feels monstrous

In Ireland invisible carers save the state €20 billion each year. When my five-year-old son, Ted, was diagnosed with leukaemia in 2022, I became one of them

Cancer: How to navigate the mental challenges of a diagnosis

Dr Muiris Houston: A new book highlights the common myths and misinformation surrounding the disease

Public cancer patients being offered treatment that is second best to one in private system, conference hears

Minister for Health tells medicines industry conference he has sanctioned 34 new hires to speed up vetting process for new treatments

Saoírse Ruane, who inspired Late Late Toy Show appeal, dies aged 12

Galway girl appeared on RTÉ after having leg amputated due to rare form of bone cancer

‘I felt I am not a full woman ... because I can’t face society with one breast’

A project designed by the RCSI aims to improve survival rates for women in Malawi diagnosed with breast cancer

Prostate cancer: Can regular physical activity reduce the risk?

Exercise appears to enhance how your immune system targets and eradicates cancer cells

Take cold dips, eat protein and have more sex: 26 ways to age happily and healthily

We can’t hold back the years, but we can influence the pace of our biological ageing and focus on the positives

‘My sister’s attitude from the start of her cancer diagnosis was toxic’

Tell Me About It: ‘The family dynamics have always been fractured and are now at an all-time low’

Oesophageal cancer: ‘People definitely rally around when they think you are going to pop your clogs’

Golfer Pádraig Harrington is proactive about raising awareness of oesophageal cancer, the incidence of which has grown about fourfold in the Western world in the last four decades

Cancer and osteoporosis patients to benefit from new drug approvals

The HSE has approved seven medicines for reimbursement using €20m provided last December

Does sparkling water damage teeth? Is beetroot juice good for blood pressure? Do vapes damage our health?

Debunking healthcare myths – researchers at University of Galway answer questions from the public about health claims

‘The consultant seemed quite surprised, after looking at my scans, that I was still alive’

Alan Markey ended up in hospital after days of worsening back pain and weight loss

Oral microbiome becoming prime focus of research over links to disease beyond the mouth

Keeping your teeth and gums healthy could have far-reaching impacts reducing risks associated with diabetes, dementia, heart disease and some cancers

Trinity College spin-out aims to make colon cancer surgery safer and improve long-term patient outcomes

PLIO Surgical has developed a minimally invasive medical device that provides a safer alternative to traditional closing and joining techniques in gastric and other surgery

Brianna Parkins: We know sunbeds are bad for us so why does Kim Kardashian have one in her office?

Owning a sunbed in 2024 is a bit like insisting on using lead paint

Ronan Bennett: ‘I’m not the only Irish person to criticise an Irish man in the White House for a lack of solidarity’

The novelist’s new book, based on his Netflix hit Top Boy, draws on his experience of being Irish in London – and of being wrongly convicted of murder. But his status as a former convict cuts little ice in his home city

Life after childhood leukaemia: ‘It makes it easier that the research is so personal’

Research Lives: Avril Deegan PhD researcher at Dublin City University School of Psychology is looking at end-of-treatment experiences of childhood leukaemia survivors

‘I come from an era where, when someone was told they have lung cancer, that was it’

Following the shock diagnosis, the mother of three adult daughters was advised that she would need surgery and chemotherapy

Cancer drug giant Roche bemoans slow access to Irish patients

Swiss pharma group says Ireland among slowest countries in Europe to pay for new medicines as it reports €116m profit

‘Many of my relationships crumbled following my cancer diagnosis’

Tell Me About It: Accepting your friends’ faults means you may be able to talk to them without bitterness

Seán Moncrieff: My cousin was cremated on the day of the riots. He’d have found a joke in there somewhere

My three cousins, all brothers, didn’t curse their genetic ill-fortune when cancer struck. They opted to remain themselves, to be funny and charming and tell stories

Cancer patients ‘dying in cold homes’, survey of palliative nurses finds

Irish Cancer Society calls for social welfare allowances to be extended to cancer patients

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