The Marie Keating Foundation slogan is Our Aim is to Enlighten not Frighten and the goals of the foundation are to raise money and make cancer education available for every person living in Ireland and beyond.

Irish singer Ronan Keating lost his mother to breast cancer in 1998, and along with other members in the Keating family, decided to start a foundation in Marie's name as a way to honor her and as a means of preventing other family members from feeling as lost and vulnerable as they felt from their own lack of cancer knowledge at the time of Marie's breast cancer diagnosis.

To spread their educational message about cancer, the foundation has established three Mobile Cancer Information Units which are based in the Eastern, Western and Southern regions of Ireland so that all residents in the Republic of Ireland will have free access to breast cancer information.

Each mobile unit is equipped with take-home printed information on colon, lung, skin, testicular, prostate, cervical, ovarian and breast cancer. There is a nurse onboard to speak with anyone privately about any personal concerns regarding cancer or for a relative, work colleague or neighbor. Dr. MyToe is an educational outreach program designed for senior level Biology students. The Marie Keating Foundation also presents cancer information on the foundation website. The Keating family has put together a very nice foundation website in cancer education.

According to Max Pemberton, Tom Cruise should stick to acting and stop going around speaking as an expert on mental health. Pemberton, a mental health professional who pens The Telegraph's Trust Me I'm a Junior Doctor column, was motivated to put on his investigative journalist hat and go see for himself what Scientology had to say about depression. I know, this is a cancer-related blog and you might be wondering why I might be discussing Cruise, Scientology and depression. Wait. Wait until I tell you what Pemberton was told when he arrived at the central London Scientology headquarters. Because, as Pemberton tells it, Scientology can explain cancer too.

On arriving Pemberton was invited in for a stress test. The woman conducting the test told him he was suffering from depression caused by a family member or friend. She assured him Scientology could help. She could not tell him more unless he signed up for a course, but she did assure him that the majority of illnesses, including diabetes, cancer, schizophrenia and depression, were the result of being suppressed by other people, but this suppression could be cleared away by Scientology. Oh really? Pemberton goes on to say he learned that Scientologists believe depression and disease are best alleviated by removing the sufferer's covering of tiny disembodied souls of aliens dispersed by the Galactic Federation leader Xenu. Nah -- no way. You cannot tell me that ten million Scientologists believe this is the cause of diseases like cancer. Do they? I invite any Scientologist who might wander by here to chime in and clarify this matter. In the meantime, Pemberton's first person account of his experience at the Scientology headquarters, and the Scientology explanation for the cause of diseases including cancer  -- leaves me feeling depressed.