School Cancer Awareness Programme
With secondary schools across the country now back for the new academic year, the Marie Keating Foundation’s Community Specialist Nurses are delighted to be returning to schools to deliver the Foundation’s School Cancer Awareness Programme.
The programme provides secondary school students with age-appropriate information on cancer prevention and encourages healthy behaviours from a young age.
This academic year, five postgraduate nurses have received bursaries from the Marie Keating Foundation and will support the Foundation’s Community Specialist Nurses in delivering cancer prevention education, helping the programme reach even more secondary school students across Ireland.
Find out more here: https://mariekeating.ie/cancer-services/schools/
Blue September – Diagnosis Duality – the Seen, Unseen and Everything in Between of a prostate cancer diagnosis
Gratitude and grief. Feeling strong while also feeling shaken. These conflicting emotions can sit side by side during and after a prostate cancer diagnosis, but they are not always visible to the people around us.
That is the reality being explored by the Marie Keating Foundation this Blue September through Diagnosis Duality – the Seen, Unseen and Everything in Between of a prostate cancer diagnosis.
Around 4,500 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer in Ireland each year. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in men in Ireland, excluding non-melanoma skin cancer.
The campaign forms part of the Marie Keating Foundation’s ongoing Stand Up for Your Prostate campaign, raising awareness of prostate cancer while shining a light on the emotional impact of diagnosis and life beyond it.
Find out more here: mariekeating.ie
MoleMaps – Protect Your Skin at Home
This summer, the Marie Keating Foundation launched MoleMaps, a national skin cancer awareness campaign highlighting that skin cancer risk exists at home in Ireland, not just while holidaying abroad.
The campaign transforms the outline of each county in Ireland into a potentially cancerous mole, with locally tailored messaging including “You’re just as likely to develop skin cancer in Cork as you are on the Costa del Sol”.
With approximately 11,500 cases diagnosed each year, skin cancer is the most common cancer in Ireland. MoleMaps encourages people to protect their skin from UV exposure at home, regularly check their skin for changes and seek medical advice about any new or changing moles or unusual skin changes.
Find out more about more here: https://mariekeating.ie/campaigns/protect-your-skin-at-home/
Annual Advanced Breast Cancer Conference
The Marie Keating Foundation will host its Annual Advanced Breast Cancer Conference at The Richmond Education and Event Centre, No. 1 North Brunswick Street, Dublin 7, D07 TH76, from 10.30am to 4.30pm.
This year’s conference will focus on: “Social and Emotional Impacts of Living with Advanced Cancer”
The conference will explore the wider social and emotional impact of living with advanced breast cancer and provide an opportunity for people living with advanced disease to hear from healthcare professionals and others working in this area.
Find out more here: https://mariekeating.ie/events/advanced-breast-cancer-awareness-day-2/