Cancer

Sunbeds, melanoma and me: ‘I knew the risks but thought it could never happen’

Personal trainer admits she used to spend hours on holiday ‘sizzling’ in the sun

‘My future looks empty and lonely ... I should have invested more in friends, but it feels too late now’

Tell Me About It: ‘I didn’t realise how much I depended on my friend until the last month, when I realised there is no one else who really knows me’

‘She was literally dying in front of our eyes’: Woman (79) died from rare, aggressive cancer related to asbestos exposure

Marie Hitchcock from Balally, Co Dublin had spent some time at an RAF base in the UK

Dragon Hearts: Moving insight into a world where mortality meets dragon boat racing

Television: Documentary follows people with experience of cancer who have embraced the ancient sport

‘I had all the symptoms of bowel cancer but it wasn’t on their radar because of my age’

Kerrie Kennedy endured searing stomach pain. Doctors ruled out a link to her pregnancy, but it still took time to identify the real culprit

Richard Boyd Barrett on his cancer treatment: ‘It is going to be very difficult to eat. That is what worries me most’

The People Before Profit TD has been heartened by a flood of kind messages from all shades of the political spectrum

Anjelica Huston reveals cancer diagnosis: ‘It was a very serious moment for me. I managed to survive’

The 73-year-old actor diagnosed six years ago and chose to keep it private – but now speaking out to help others

Do we really need 10,000 steps a day to stay healthy?

From marketing gimmick to health benchmark: how 10,000 steps became a universal goal

Creating the best environment to stop cancer cells

Research Lives: Dr Eva Szegezdi, lecturer in biochemistry, University of Galway

Breakthrough by DCU researcher promises improved ‘chemo’ with fewer side effects

Nanotechnology drug delivery could mean faster treatments and reduced hair loss, nausea and fatigue

My son Ted is about to finish three years of leukaemia treatment. What happens now?

I’m proud of my brave, resilient child, of all he has done to heal. Still, I don’t exactly feel like celebrating

Access to new cancer drugs key focus of new patient advocacy group

United Cancer Advocates Network Ireland brings together people currently campaigning for specific cancers to address common issues

Bowel cancer screening programme extended to people aged up to 70

Galway man (59) tells of his shock when BowelScreen test found cancer, despite lack of symptoms

Nine in 10 with melanoma skin cancer survive at least five years

Men are more likely than women to die from melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers

Will AI revolutionise healthcare?

From X-ray and cancer screening to embryology and beyond, the medical world is using AI to develop new treatments, though public trust remains an issue

Róisín Ingle: I was mortified by how much Kate Middleton’s message affected me

But I was also grateful. I am still careful about the links I click on but I am not as afraid of cancer content

Cancer: ‘It wasn’t a lump, just a difference in how it felt. When it didn’t go away, I went to see my GP’

After being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2022, Amy Carswell had a ‘difficult experience’, but she has ‘come out the other side a fit and healthy woman’

‘I don’t write a lot of personal stuff’: author Róisín Lanigan on being married, divorced and surviving cancer before her 30s

The Irish author is on the cusp of publishing her debut novel, which reflects on the realities of the housing crisis for young people

Woman was diagnosed with cancer after her earlier request for a mammogram ‘was refused’, Medical Council hears

Doctor is facing fitness-to-practise panel over allegations including poor professional performance

‘It is the biggest burden of my life’: An oncologist’s struggle to secure medicines for patients

Getting patients access to treatments they need – without which they will die – is the ‘biggest burden of my life’, says Prof Gráinne O’Kane

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