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The Zip Yard, Ireland’s leading clothing and alterations boutique, are supporting the Irish Cancer Society by donating 50 per cent of turnover in each of their 24 shops throughout the country, including Athlone, on October 10 to the Paint it Pink campaign.

Extending the national breast cancer screening programme to include women aged between 65 and 69 would save the lives of five women in Mayo every year.

The third Lunch by the Lake, a very special fundraising event in aid of the National Breast Cancer Research Institute (NBCRI) will take place at the Wineport Lodge on Sunday October 5.

The Irish Cancer Society is calling on the women of Westmeath, and the TDs who represent them, to join them at Leinster House on September 30 to demand the Government keep its promise to extend BreastCheck to women aged 65-69.

Local heart specialist, Dr Yvonne Smyth will give a free public talk in the Croí Heart and Stroke Centre on Thursday October 1 at 7.30pm specifically aimed at local women. The talk entitled Women and Heart Disease is being organised by local heart and stroke charity Croí to raise awareness among women of the fact that heart disease is not just a man’s disease.

A fundraising brunch in aid of the National Breast Cancer Research Institute will take place in Loughrea next week.

An in depth special report on the county's health has revealed that Mayo is a blackspot for prostate cancer and diabetes and death rates from heart attacks, stroke, and breast cancer are among the highest in the country.

This year, as part of National Bike Week, the annual Tour de Lough Corrib charity cycle in aid of the heart and stroke charity Croí, will take place on Sunday, June 15.

An idea that was born when a Castlebar woman who had survived breast cancer was having a chat with her friend (who happened to be the Taoiseach) about how she could raise some funds for cancer research, has grown into something of a ‘pink movement’ in Mayo.

Breast cancer advocacy group Europa Donna Ireland has announced that the national Dragon Boat Roadshow will visit Baysport, Hodson Bay in Athlone this Sunday April 6 at 10.30am.