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.
Breast cancer breakthrough may reduce use of chemotherapy Trial results suggest hormone therapy more suitable for many postmenopausal women
Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 03:00
Kevin O Sullivan Environment & Science Editor Listen now 4:25
About 3,000 breast cancer cases are detected in Ireland each year, of which about 70 per cent are at the early stage. Photograph: iStock
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New research indicates the great majority of postmenopausal women with one of the most common forms of early-stage breast cancer can be spared unnecessary chemotherapy and receive only hormone therapy.