The NCI All Ireland Cancer Conference

NCI Microbial Based Cancer Therapy Conference Poster Session

Tourism and Hospitality Research in Ireland Conference

One of the primary challenges for the tourism sector is to communicate with potential customers in a manner that is readily accessible to them. Tourism enterprises must ensure that the tourism product is presented and promoted in the most effective and efficient manner possible. Information and communication technology (ICT) applications play a critical role in overcoming this challenge. The li...

The Northern Ireland Cancer Registry

The Northern Ireland Cancer Registry was evaluated using a 5% sample of all cancers diagnosed histologically in 1983 as the standard for comparison. The overall registration rate was low. Two years following histological diagnosis only 63% of the cancers were registered and 19% of these were notified solely by the Registrar General's office. In a subgroup of patients who were known to have died...

Breast cancer stamp funds new NCI program.

F or the last 9 years, the U.S. Postal Service's breast cancer stamp has come to the rescue of breast cancer researchers in need of funding. Now a new program introduced by the National Cancer Institute narrows the focus of the research funded by the stamp but asks bigger questions. The proceeds from the stamp are now funneled into the breast cancer premalig-nancy program, which funds research ...

BCY 2 - Second Breast Cancer in Young Women Conference 4th-5th November 2014 Dublin, Ireland.

and the importance of improvement of psychosocial and medical care of those patients mainly focusing on the US perspective. She also focused on the unique aspects of young women with BC. They often present an advanced disease because of delays of diagnosis (‘you are too young to have breast cancer’) and a more aggressive tumor biology (e.g. ER negative, high grade, LVI disease, HER2-positive). ...