Cancer survival rates have improved significantly in the last 20 years.
The latest figures from the National Cancer Registry of Ireland (NCRI), show survival rates up from 72% to 81% for breast cancer and from 69% to 91% for prostate cancer.
The NCRI say there are 94,000 people living in Ireland ten years after being first diagnosed with cancer.
However the incidence of cancer in Ireland is also on the rise, with more than 30,000 cases of the disease in Ireland every year. 2012 rates are approximately 10% higher than Europe in Irish men, and 16% higher in women.
Cancer remains the second most common cause of death in this country, with 8,800 deaths every year.
Dr Harry Comber, head of the National Cancer Registry, says the causes of increased cancer rates are long established:
