Monroe Eibhlin News Today

  The risk of a “cancer epidemic” on the island of Ireland as a direct result of the Covid-19 pandemic can’t be underestimated, a leading cancer researcher has said. Prof Mark Lawler, chair in translational cancer genomics at Queen’s University Belfast, said the pandemic is “wreaking untold damage for Irish citizens and particularly Irish cancer patients”. Prof Lawler was addressing an online event organised by InterTradeIreland to mark the signing of an internati...