New book helps you watch what you eat to keep cancer at bay
The link between cancer and food is explained in a new book, The Anti-Cancer Cookbook, which also contains 130 recipes, writes KATE RYAN, who catches up with one of the authors, Dr Aoife Ryan
Leading dieticians and cancer experts at UCC, Dr Aoife Ryan and Dr Éadaoin Ní Bhuachalla. Picture: Sarah Ryan
Kate Ryan
“CANCER causes one in six deaths worldwide and has overtaken cardiovascular disease as the leading cause of death in many parts of the world.”
The opening line of The Anti-Cancer Cookbook is attention-grabbing. Whilst cancer treatments are helping with increased survival rates, the holy grail lies in prevention.
Breakthrough Cancer Research calls for urgent response to find new treatments A Cork cancer research charity says the pandemic has created a ticking timebomb for the disease.
Breakthrough Cancer Research s calling for an urgent response to find new treatments, similar to the fight against Covid-19, as part of World Cancer Day.
Chief executive Orla Dolan says it s important to note the disease hasn t gone away. On a day like World Cancer Day we can celebrate how many survivors we have right now which is 200,000 in the country; but still we have 9,000 people who don t make it every year. The only way we re going to change that is to research.
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Listen to your body - Cancer survivor urges people to act fast
#WorldCancerDay - Niamh Morrison pictured at home in Kileely, Limerick. She was diagnosed with diabetes and lung cancer in June 2018. Photo: Brian Arthur
Thu, 04 Feb, 2021 - 06:30
Niamh Griffin, Health Correspondent
Niamh Morrison has a small tattoo under her wrist with Love, Faith, Hope written inside tiny colourful hearts.
This was the mantra which got her through a lung cancer diagnosis, but she said it all started with a gut feeling there was something more seriously wrong than her first symptoms indicated.
Lung cancer is one of the most common types of cancer in Ireland with about 2,430 diagnosed annually. The outcome depends on both the type of cancer a person has and when it is discovered.
Midlands 103
Latest figures:
46 of these deaths occurred in February, 27 occurred in January, 2 were earlier.
The median age of those who died is 84 years and the age range is 34-100 years.
There has been a total of 3,586 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight, Wednesday 3rd February, the HPSC has been notified of 1,318 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now a total of 200,744 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
Of the cases notified today:
622 are men / 688 are women
58% are under 45 years of age
The median age is 40 years old
428 in Dublin, 122 in Cork, 93 in Galway, 78 in Kildare, 77 in Limerick and the remaining 520 cases are spread across all other counties.