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Today, Friday October 5 the Irish Cancer Society is calling on everyone in Mayo to get together and support Get the Girls Day by buying and wearing a pink ribbon to help raise awareness and fund the society’s cancer projects and support services.

The Irish Cancer Society is calling on all women in Mayo to come together and Get the Girls doing something throughout the months of September and October to combat breast cancer. At the launch of its new campaign today, which is kindly supported by Centra, the Irish Cancer Society sent a rallying call to women in Mayo to help reach the next groundbreaking breast cancer discovery by raising funds for vital breast cancer research in Mayo.

Anne Tobin has been a Cambridge Diet counsellor since 1988 and achieved counsellor of the year for the British Isles in 2001.

A home-based intervention developed by St James’s Hospital and the Regional Oncology Programme Office, Dublin, to help cancer survivors manage cancer related fatigue, one of the most common, distressing, and disabling difficulties people face after cancer treatment, has now been made available to patients by Roche Products (Ireland) Ltd in Mayo General Hospital.

A home-based intervention developed by St James’s Hospital and the Regional Oncology Programme Office, Dublin to help cancer survivors manage fatigue, one of the most common, distressing, and disabling difficulties people face after cancer treatment, has now been made available to patients by Roche Products (Ireland) Ltd in UHG, the Galway Clinic, and Portiuncula.

The services provided by Cancer Care West will be highlighted in a broadcast on popular RTE1 programme, Nationwide on Friday at 7pm.

The Irish Cancer Society, along with local cancer survivor Jennifer Hunt from Castlebar, would like to invite everyone to the official launch of Relay for Life Castlebar 2012, on Thursday, March 29 at 8pm in the TF Royal Hotel, Castlebar.

At the launch of the Irish Cancer Society’s Lung Cancer Awareness campaign 2012, the society has expressed concern at a recent report which shows lung cancer has overtaken breast cancer as the biggest cause of cancer death in women in Ireland for the first time. This year the society is encouraging everyone to Look After Your Lungs, know how best to prevent lung cancer, know the signs and symptoms and if you are concerned, go to your GP.

A local TD is calling for a clear plan to be drawn up in the New Year to illustrate how the appointment of three new consultants to University, Merlin Park and Portiuncula Hospitals will work in the various facilities.

Coming Home is an uplifting and enlightening good news story of one woman’s journey to recovery from breast cancer. It evolved out of a short story, previously short-listed for the Hennessy Literary Awards, by author Anne Chambers (www.annechambers-graceomalley.com) who wrote the screenplay.