Breast Cancer Ireland (BCI) is a charity set up to raise money for breast cancer research. It is administered through the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland under the direction of Professor Arnold Hill.

BCI’s ambition is to seek integration and collaboration amongst breast cancer researchers nationally, to improve patient outcomes.

We are constantly looking for new and improved ways of treating patients with breast cancer. We conduct relevant biological research into breast cancer, its causes and potential treatments.

We aim to provide every patient, diagnosed with breast cancer, with their own personalised and tailored treatment plan. New drugs are being developed that can be targeted to specific parts of a patients cancer tissue. To determine which drugs may be effective for a patients cancer requires sophisticated analysis which it is hoped will be made available to all patients.

Currently we cannot predict who will get breast cancer. We do know that there are factors that will increase a women's risk of developing breast cancer, such as family history. Early detection and early treatment of the disease is a vital part of reducing the number of women dying from breast cancer.