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The new frontier in fighting cancer: Immunotherapies
3D rendered Illustration of T-Cells of the immune System attacking growing Cancer cells. The immune system is the body’s defence mechanism to protect itself from harm. This harm can come from outside...
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How Covid has highlighted shortfalls of our cancer care system
*This OpEd featured in the Irish Examiner on World Cancer Day 2021 and is reprinted with permission. As a cancer doctor, the ability to connect and relate to a patient is dependent on regular...
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Vaccines should be Favoured not Feared, from MMR to HPV and Covid
Few interventions in human history have saved more lives than vaccines. After clean water, no medicine nor treatment has had more impact on societal health or mortality rates. The advent of modern...
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HPV and Cervical Cancer: A conversation on the facts, screening and vaccines
Ahead of International human papillomavirus (HPV) Awareness Day, 4th March 2021, Dr Frances Drummond, Research Officer, Breakthrough Cancer Research, speaks to Dr Mairead O’Connor, a Research Fellow in...
View ArticleOvarian Cancer: PARP Inhibitors and Beyond (Webinar with Q&A)
On World Ovarian Cancer Day 2021 and in the midst of a global pandemic, Ireland’s foremost Ovarian Cancer Campaigners, Researchers, and Patient Advocates are advising women across Ireland not to ignore...
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5 Steps To Lower Your Cancer Risk – XMDay 2022
On XM Day 2022 Breakthrough will be focusing on 5 of the risk reduction steps in partnership with Qualtrics employees to commit to taking positive steps to reduce our cancer risk and encourage others...
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Health in our hands
How we can reduce our cancer risk through simple lifestyle changes Cancer seems a terrifyingly random disease – an ominous, senseless illness that seems to strike without rhyme nor reason. But while...
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World Immunisation Week 2022
Prevention is better than cure and vaccines are the medical example of this statement. In the centuries since their introduction, they have saved millions of lives. Most recently we have seen their...
View ArticleSleep and Cancer (World Sleep Day)
Sleep is essential for both our physical and mental health. World Sleep Day is an opportunity to raise awareness of sleep for people with cancer, and beyond into survivorship. People differ in their...
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UV and Protecting Your Skin
People often think it is a hot sun that causes skin cancer but in fact, it is the ultraviolet radiation (UV) from the sun that is responsible for skin cancers. When the UV index is 3 or above we need...
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