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Westlife’s Shane Filan will pay tribute to his late parents alongside thousands of people from across Ireland who have been affected by cancer at a moving event in the Aviva this September.

Workers, families and businesses need fulsome support in the face of the present public health emergency, Sinn Féin TD for Longford/Westmeath, Sorca Clarke, has vehemently stated.

The Marie Keating Foundation’s free six week ‘Survive and Thrive’ programme which was due to commence in the Sheraton Athlone Hotel on April 7 has been cancelled due to the persistent COVID-19 health crisis.

Tuam Cancer Care has this week been celebrating local cancer survivors and showcasing the support they provide to their local community in the run up Global Cancer Survivorship day.

Cancer survivor Dean Hall from Oregon in the United States plans to be the first person in history to swim the entire length of the River Shannon.

University Hospital Galway is the first hospital in the country to host an inspiring exhibition which features the stories of 10 breast cancer survivors.

Galway University Hospital will be one of two centres in the State to pilot a specialist nurse-led side effects clinic for men with prostate cancer.

Record numbers of cancer survivors attended the recent Irish Cancer Society National Conference for Cancer Survivorship. To mark its 50th Anniversary, the Irish Cancer Society held a milestone conference entitled Living Well with Cancer, bringing together over 800 cancer survivors for the first time. Cancer Survivors from Mayo attended the conference alongside representatives from Mayo Cancer Support Association. The two-day event which took place in the Aviva Stadium in Dublin, was the largest event of its kind by the society, and was kindly supported by Roche.

The Irish Cancer Society will hold a free conference for cancer survivors on Friday September 20 and Saturday September 21 at the Aviva Stadium, Dublin, which representatives from Cara Iorrais Cancer Support Centre and Mayo Cancer Support Association will attend. The conference, entitled Living Well with Cancer, is in its 20th year and aims to address the needs of cancer survivors across the country.

There are more cancer survivors alive today than at any other time in the history of the world. That is the positive message from Dr Paul Donnellan, a consultant medical oncologist at Galway University Hospitals.