Over the last 24 years, the Marie Keating Foundation has grown to become one of the leading voices in cancer prevention, early detection, support and survivorship in Ireland. They provide services at every step of a cancer journey to both men and women and provide information on all the common cancers.

Their caring and compassionate team of nurses, who are based regionally, are at the heart of everything they do. Their nurses work in communities across Ireland providing free lifesaving information and education on cancer prevention and early detection to secondary school, students,  community groups and to underserved or marginalised communities. This service allows anyone with a query or concern to speak in private to a specialist nurse in a non-clinical setting and take away practical information, booklets and leaflets across all the common cancers.

Outside of their community work the Foundation also provides a Comfort Fund, which gives anyone struggling financially as a result of a cancer diagnosis a once-off grant to help alleviate a moment of extreme financial pressure. Their range of support services help both men and women who have come out the other side of treatment and who are adjusting to life after a cancer journey, or men and women who are living with an advanced cancer diagnosis to live well with cancer.