Bowel screening tests can detect growths before they become cancerous. Photo: Stock/Monkey Business Images Free bowel screening will be extended to 116,000 more people from tomorrow and will expand to include people aged 57 to 71 years of age. BowelScreen is the national bowel screening programme which offers free screening every two years. Source link
Busy chef Ciaran Cunningham says being afraid to talk to your GP about toilet habits could make treatment far more difficult – or worse Ciaran Cunningham marks Bowel Cancer Awareness Month A busy executive chef has told how embarrassment about symptoms led to him delay seeking diagnosis of bowel cancer. Ciaran Cunningham, who lives in … Read more
Colon cancer, illustration A blood test for bowel cancer developed by researchers in Dublin is being backed with a €670,000 fund in a bid to make it a commercially viable product. Researchers from Trinity College Dublin and Dublin City University will use newly awarded funding from Enterprise Ireland’s Commercialisation Fund to develop a blood-based screening … Read more
For ‘The Young Offenders’ and 2FM star, Daffodil Day is all about providing support It has been 20 years since Oviawe (25) lost her mother, and a decade since her father died. Despite the profound losses, the Young Offenders star said she “didn’t let the grief consume her”. “My mother had breast cancer, my father … Read more
Amanda Broaders had two children and was just 34 when diagnosed with breast cancer Amanda Broaders. Photo: Patrick Browne The message from Amanda Broaders is clear: “Listen to your body and advocate for yourself if you think that there’s something wrong.” With a family history of breast cancer, Ms Broaders wasted no time in contacting … Read more
Ahead of Daffodil Day this Friday, award-winning milliner and influencer Jennifer Wrynne shares her journey with breast cancer. Less than a year on from her diagnosis, she recalls her initial reaction and dealing with treatment, all the while trying to keep a sense of calm for her four kids Jennifer Wrynne and husband Colm at … Read more
With the Irish Cancer Society’s Daffodil Day coming up, Síle Nic Suibhne recalls the day a mammogram changed her life – and how the disease has devastated her family Síle Nic Suibhne at Rosses Point in Sligo. Photo: Brian Farrell Síle Nic Suibhne had her first mammogram in 2013, almost two years before she turned … Read more
The service allowed Robert Flanagan to undergo treatment with minimal disruption to his children’s lives Ahead of Daffodil Day, the charity published figures that show it provided chemotherapy patients with 30,000 free lifts to treatment last year. Robert Flanagan was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in January 2024, when he was 48 years old. The father … Read more
Breast cancer remains the most common cancer among women worldwide, with annual cases expected to reach more than 3.5 million by 2050 , according to the analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study, Breast Cancer Collaborators, published in The Lancet Oncology. Yearly deaths from the disease are projected to surge 44pc, from around 764,000 … Read more
Dublin nurse Chloe Cowman was diagnosed with stage 2 colorectal cancer in 2023 when it was picked up during screening. She wants people to understand this is not just an ‘old person’s disease’ and to know the signs and symptoms Chloe Cowman. Photo: Mark Condren Chloe Cowman was 39 when she received a diagnosis of … Read more