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TD Conor Lenihan on his health scare

Conor Lenihan was alerted to the possibility that he may have a tumor after a TV appearance. Conor admits that he had noticed the lump on his jaw, but like so many, had ignored the problem. He says a chill ran through him at the first mention of the word cancer and organised an appointment with a consultant immediately. Conor tells his story of a worrying time and gives his advice to men like himself that put off health issues and leave them on the long finger ‘get the right advice and get it quickly’.

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(4 minutes 49 secs)

MEP Gay Mitchell urges men to take their health seriously and get checked!

Cancer is a topic close to Fine Gael MEP Gay Mitchell’s heart having lost close family members to the disease. Recently he hosted a talk urging people, men in particular, to get health checks and for men to have regular prostate checks. Around five hundred men die in Ireland each year from prostate cancer. Many die because it is diagnosed too late – if it is caught early there is almost a one hundred percent survival rate. Listen as Gay talks about his own experiences as he shares his story in a very open interview with Aileen.

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(2 minutes 58 secs)

Men & Stress

Stress – it affects all of us at one time or another, but how we cope with stress is very different between men and women. We hear from men on the street about what stresses them out, and how they do or don’t cope, while stress counsellor Karen Belshaw joins Aileen O’Meara to talk about men, stress and the, what Karen calls, classic behaviour of men seeking the company of other men, even just for a quit pint, to cope with their stress.  Tune in to hear more about coping with stress and about changing our ‘self-talk’ as Karen calls it to enjoy a more stressfree life.

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(3 minutes 15 secs)

Irish Men More Likely to Get Skin Cancer

Melanoma, or skin cancer, is on the rise in Ireland and our researchers in UCD's Conway Institute are trying to find out why some people develop skin cancer and others don't.  It also looks at the possible reasons why men tend to develop more aggressive skin cancers than women. Listen Here... (4min 42sec)