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Earlier Detection and Diagnosis of Breast Cancer: A Report from It’s About Time! A Consensus Conference, Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. "In the treatment of breast cancer, time is of the essence. Screening for breast cancer could take place earlier than it does today, earlier in life for women at risk, and at an earlier stage of growth for all who contract the disease."  Click to go.

In late January, CPAC (Canadian Partnership Against Cancer) released a report entitled Canadian Priorities for Addressing Obesity as a Cancer and Chronic Disease Risk Factor. "This report is an effort to synthesize existing efforts to prioritize and implement healthy public policies aimed to reduce obesity rates and create healthier communities," says Dr. Jon Kerner, senior scientific advisor for Cancer Control and Knowledge Translation at CPAC. Dr. Kerner also chairs CPAC's primary prevention advisory group. "We're already beginning to see some Pan-Canadian adoption of innovative approaches to knowledge sharing that will improve cancer prevention efforts across Canada." Full report:
www.partnershipagainstcancer.ca/wp-content/uploads/AIA-FINAL-REPORT-NOV-23-3.pdf.

“We are in debt so far that I do not sleep at night and am paralyzed by fear that recurrence or metastases will make us bankrupt.”

– Breast cancer patient’s comment, published in Canadian Breast Cancer Network’s 2010 report on the economic impact of breast cancer.
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“While it is agreed upon that vocation and employment are distinct and fundamental components of psychosocial well being, the work-related needs of cancer survivors have been insufficiently addressed in the continuum of cancer care…” – January 2011, by Patricia Nitkin, Maureen Parkinson & Izabela Z. Schultz. University of British Columbia, British Columbia Cancer Agency. Click to go.

How Health Insurance Design Affects Access to Care and Costs, by Income, in Eleven Countries: The Commonwealth Fund’s international survey, Nov. 18, 2010. In Canada, 15% of 3,302 survey participants said they went without care because of cost, and 15% said they had problems with health insurance. Sixty-eight percent said they were confident or very confident that they would be able to afford needed health care. The survey was funded in Canada by the Health Council of Canada, Ontario Quality Council, and Quebec Health Commission.