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Cancer Care West is a not for profit organisation and registered west of Ireland charity (CHY 11260 ) dedicated to supporting those whose lives have been affected by a cancer diagnosis.

A charity mock wedding which takes place this St Valentine’s weekend aims to raise vital funds for a local cancer organisation.

Prostate cancer figures remain steady in Kilkenny at an average of 49 cases per year.

A Co. Galway woman has settled her High Court action against the Health Service Executive (HSE) over an alleged litany of failures over many years at University College Hospital Galway, to diagnose and treat her breast cancer despite her having had a series of mammograms at the hospital.

Nobel Prize winner, Seamus Heaney will give one of the first public readings of his new collection entitled Human Chain at the Bailey Allen Hall at NUI Galway on Tuesday September 7 at 8pm. The proceeds will go to Cancer Care West, the local cancer charity.

The HSE and the WHitfield Clinic in Waterford have announced that agreement has been reached for the continued provision of oncology services for patients in the south-east.

On Wednesday April 28 from 7pm to 9pm an information evening on bowel cancer will be held in the Harlequin Hotel, Castlebar. 

Public cancer patients from Kilkenny and across the southeast will not be treated at the Whitfield Clinic in Waterford unless they are existing patients from April 1.The decision taken by the clinic follows months of negotiations between the clinic and the HSE whereby the clinic was attempting to negotiate a new contract from 2010.

Some 97 per cent of “urgent” patients are seen within 10 days at the symptomatic breast centre at University Hospital Galway.

A fundraising art demonstration by locally based artist Marja van Kampen will take place at the Kenny Gallery, Liosban on Saturday March 20.