Almost half of the new cancer cases in Louth last year were a diagnosis of skin cancer, shocking new figures have revealed.
The Irish Cancer Society published data for 2019, showing there were 589 new cancer cases in Louth. A total of 283 of these were patients who had been diagnosed with skin cancer.
A further 93 cases were Prostate cancer, while 85 facing a breast cancer diagnosis.
There were 76 people diagnosed with bowel cancer, and 72 lung cancer cases in the same year.
The figures emerged as the Irish Cancer Society is urged people to remember and pay tribute to those affected by cancer in 2020, including the 9,000 people who lost their lives.