The number of cancer cases in Ireland each year has increased by almost 50% since the mid 1990s.
However, the report from the National Cancer Registry shows that survival rates are also improving.
Much of the increase in the number of new cancer cases can be attributed to Ireland's ageing population, so the risk of developing cancer is rising by just 1% per year.
In the mid 1990s, the percentage of patients alive five years after a cancer diagnosis was 40%, but ten years later that had risen to 50%.
Lung cancer has now overtaken breast cancer as the cancer most likely to cause death in women.
While both the incidence of and mortality from lung cancer in men is falling, the incidence in women is rising and the largest increase, 4% per year, is in women under 55.
Survival rates for lung cancer for both men and women are low but improving.
