Over 2,300 people in Ireland will be diagnosed with lung cancer this year and many of these will not survive more than five years because the disease will have been detected at an advanced stage, the Irish Cancer Society (ICS) has said.

It is holding a public talk later this month to highlight the importance of early detection.

According to the charity, just three in every 20 lung cancer patients survive five years or more because the disease tends to be diagnosed at a late stage. It has invited Prof John Field, who is director of research at the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Research Programme in the UK, to discuss the latest advances in the detection of lung cancer.

Prof Field, who is also chief investigator for the UK Lung Cancer Screening Trial, is an internationally recognised expert in this field. He will be presenting the latest findings in relation to new approaches to reducing lung cancer cases and deaths from the disease.

This event is part of the ICS's ‘Decoding Cancer' series of public talks, which aim to dispel cancer myths and highlight the latest research.

The talk will take place on Tuesday, January 24, at 6.30pm in the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, 152-160 Pearse Street, Dublin 2.

This talk is open to all members of the public and is free of charge, however registration is necessary. For more information, or to register, click here