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If you love your breasts, raise your hand
Feb. 24, 2012 The Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation is launching its first major public awareness campaign for breast health. More. New $40 Million Caregiver Tax Credit
Feb. 24, 2012 The Canadian Cancer Society and other Canadian organizations came together to applaud the federal government for its new Family Caregiver Tax Credit. More. Drug coverage for home care
Feb. 22, 2012 Nova Scotia's Department of Health and Wellness will now fund palliative home care drug coverage in all areas of the province. Link. Building better hospitals
Feb. 22, 2012 TEDMED presents Michael Graves: Why current hospital design doesn’t promote health. See his new ideas for hospitals of the future. Video. More TEDMED on this site. Artificial tanning concerns on Parliament Hill
Feb. 21, 2012 The Canadian Cancer Society (CCS) appeared on February 20 before the Committee on Health and Social Services, which had a mandate to study its petition on skin cancer and artificial tanning. The CCS maintains that the unrestricted sale of artificial tanning services and their easy access for young and vulnerable clients are incompatible with their extremely harmful health consequences. More. Click here to see the Canadian Cancer Society video on YouTube called Chicken Surprise. The french-language version is here. Here's the link for the CCS video called The Spot. And another link to a CCS video called Morphsuit Party. $2.8 million to study occupational causes of cancer
Feb. 14, 2012 A team led by Dr Jack Siemiatycki of the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre with Dr Michael Pollak of McGill University has received the go ahead for a five-year project to develop and apply CANJEM, a job-exposure matrix, to discover occupational causes of lung, brain, ovarian and colorectal cancer. Link. More mammograms for New Brunwick
Feb. 13, 2012 The Sussex Health Centre has a new digital mammography service available to women in Kings County. The unit is expected to provide 1,500 mammographies each year. Link. Exercise studied as breast cancer prevention.
By Sarah Bridge,
CBC News
Jan 4, 2012 "...an Alberta-based study of 400 healthy, post-menopausal women that will compare the impact of moderate and high-level exercise regimes on risk factors associated with breast cancer such as body fat and hormone levels." The lead researcher is Christine Friedenreich. Link. Alexithymia in Cancer Patients: Review of the Literature, Psychotherapy & Psychosomatics 2012; 81: 79-86
...studies are needed which investigate the nature (state or trait) of alexithymia, its impact on cancer development and progression, as well as its influence on compliance and on the underestimation of psychological distress and psychiatric outcome in cancer patients. Link to abstract. |
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