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Ballinasloe Cancer Support Centre is delighted to announce it has moved to a bigger centre in Main Street, Ballinasloe. The premises is located over what was formely the National Irish Bank building, with an entrance beside John Dolan auctioneers.

Fifteen Centra stores in Mayo have helped raise more than €500,000 for the Irish Cancer Society’s Action Breast Cancer in 2012. This is Centra’s third year providing nationwide support to the charity with all funds raised going to provide information, advice and support services for women with breast cancer in Ireland.

A young Galway woman diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 33 spoke out this week on her own experiences with disease and the extortionate prices of essential prohibitive tests for young women like her.

Two NUI Galway researchers have published a book on fungal diagnostics, detailing innovative methods for rapid, accurate detection of these potentially life threatening infections.

Mayo cancer patients are being treated like second class citizens at University Hospital Galway’s centre of excellence according to a local deputy.

On the June Bank Holiday weekend, Cancer Care West is looking for cyclists to make the epic 240k journey from Donegal town to Inis Aoibhinn, Cancer Care West’s residential facility in Galway. This event is being organised in a bid to raise funds for Inis Aoibhinn. This intense route was chosen because over 70 per cent of those using the treatment and services provided at Inis Aoibhinn come from the Mayo, Donegal and Sligo area.

There are approximately 450 new cases of oral cancer diagnosed every year in the island of Ireland. This figure is comparable to cervical cancer and melanoma and it has a high morbidity rate despite advances in surgical and reconstructive techniques. There are four to five deaths for every 10 cases of oral cancer. The rates for males are three times higher than females and lifestyle plays a significant role. Smoking, alcohol, and poor diet are the major risk factors, with tobacco linked to more than 75 per cent of cases of intra oral cancer.

On the June Bank Holiday weekend, Cancer Care West is looking for cyclists to make the epic 240k journey from Donegal town to Inis Aoibhinn, Cancer Care West’s residential facility in Galway. This event is being organised in a bid to raise funds for Inis Aoibhinn. This intense route was chosen because over 70 per cent of those using the treatment and services provided at Inis Aoibhinn come from the Mayo, Donegal and Sligo area.

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