Irish Cancer Prevention Network
The Irish Cancer Prevention Network (ICPN) collaborate on awareness raising activity in relation to cancer risk reduction targeting health and social care professionals. This year the ICPN held the first in person event for health and social care professionals on Wednesday 4th October. The event offered a unique opportunity for health and social care professionals […]
October is Liver Cancer Awareness Month. Raising public awareness is vital in improving outcomes for patients with primary liver cancer. Prevention and early detection through immunisation, surveillance programmes, education and health promotion are key in the battle against this disease. The National Cancer Registry of Ireland reported 344 new cases of liver cancer and 398 […]
With European Alcohol Awareness Week coming up in November the ICPN are raising awareness of steps you can take to reduce cancer risk. Alcohol is one of the leading risk factors for cancer in Ireland. Drinking alcohol causes 7 types of cancer, including mouth, throat, larynx, oesophagus, breast, stomach and bowel cancer (1)(2). When alcohol […]
Listen to Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Dr Triona McCarthy at the HSE’s National Cancer Control Programme discuss steps you can take to reduce your risk of cancer, and the healthy lifestyle choices you can make to help. Triona also explains that not all cancers can be prevented; each individual’s risk of getting cancer is […]
CervicalCheck is offering women who just missed out on HPV cervical screening when it launched in March 2020, an opportunity to book one free HPV test. CervicalCheck is writing to around 80,000 women to invite them to invite them to book their free HPV cervical screening test. Up to March 2020, cervical screening was offered […]
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, when the National Screening Service (NSS) raises awareness of BreastCheck, the free national breast screening programme for women aged 50 to 69. Throughout October, BreastCheck has been running a press, social and online campaign to give women the information they need to enable them to choose breast screening. They […]
Earlier this month, the National Screening Service (NSS) announced that it has begun expanding the age range of those eligible for BowelScreen with the addition of 59-year-olds, initially moving from 60 to 69 to 59 to 69. This makes the free home screening test available to more people. Age extension is outlined in the National […]