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The annual Frances Thornton Memorial Galway Bay Swim in aid of Cancer Care West which is now in its 16th year will be taking place throughout the month of August.

Q. Do I need to register for the free cancer screening programmes and when do I become eligible?

An Irish mother who went to Mexico to spend Christmas with family became too weak to return home after being diagnosed with stage 4 cancer shortly after arriving.

Robert O’Leary is a Kinsale native, who after 30 years of service in Eli Lilly was looking forward to his retirement and further pursuing his love of GAA and walking.

The HSE’s National Cancer Control Programme (NCCP) is reminding people to protect themselves from skin cancer as new Covid-19 public health measures come into effect.

A third of Irish people are ‘not at all worried’ about skin cancer, worrying new research has revealed, despite the fact that skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in Ireland and claims over 230 lives each year - according to the Irish Cancer Society.

A major manufacturer of workstations reports that 86 per cent of work computer users have to sit all day, and when they do rise from sitting, more than half (56 per cent) use food as the excuse to get up and move. In addition to sitting at work, for meals, and commuting to/from work, 36 per cent sit another one to two hours watching TV, 10 per cent sit one to two hours for gaming, 25 per cent sit one to two hours for reading/lounging, and 29 per cent use their home computer for one to two hours. In summary, the average Irish person sits for 9.5 hours a day and sleep for eight hours. That's a total of 17.5 hours a day off their feet.

A third of Irish people are ‘not at all worried’ about skin cancer, worrying new research has revealed.

The major disruption to local hospital services caused by the recent cyber attack on the HSE’s IT system is expected to continue for a number of weeks with thousands of patients facing cancelled appointments and delays.

It is still too early to say if confidential patient information, either recent or historical, has been compromised as a result of the cyber attack on the Health Service Executive's IT systems, according to Tony Canavan, chief executive of the Saolta University Health Care Group, which runs the seven public hospitals in the west and north-west of the country.