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Government Launches Ten-Year Plan To Reduce Cancer Rates

The new cancer strategy has been unveiled, in a bid to reduce cancer rates in the next ten years.

Bowel and breast screening will be extended, and the push to make Ireland tobacco-free by 2025 continues.

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Ireland has an ageing population, and is predicted to almost double its cancer rates by 2040.

The strategy is predicted to cost up to 2 billion euro.

Health Minister Simon Harris says he expects to spend 140 million euro a year, not including the cost of drugs.

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