What is cancer?
Cancer is a disease of the cells in our body. It happens when abnormal cells grow out of control, producing a tumour in the body or abnormal cells in the blood.
Visit our What is cancer? page to find out more about how cancer develops and types of cancer.
Did you know?
There are over 200 different types of cancer, each with a specific name, treatment and chance of being cured.
What causes cancer?
Cancer starts with a mistake in our DNA
Mistakes can happen by chance when cells are dividing or be inherited from our parents.
We have information about things that increase the risk of mistakes in our DNA and about how some inherited gene changes can increase cancer risk.
Cancer facts and figures
Find out about the number of cancers diagnosed in Ireland each year, the most common cancers and information on survival and mortality.
Getting cancer information
With some much information available, it can be hard to make sense of it all and to know which information you can trust. We have advice on getting reliable cancer infomation and how to make sense of medical language.
Read helpful advice on Getting cancer information
Related links
Talk to a Cancer Nurse
Support Line
Our Daffodil Centres
