Eleanor Cook (second from right) spending valuable time with her family. Surgery and chemotherapy had already saved Cook’s life once since she was first diagnosed with cancer in 2013, but these new tumours would not be beaten by the same familiar tools. “I wasn’t a candidate for surgery because I had too many tumours on […]
Lung Cancer Patients And Caregivers Face An Overpowering Avalanche Of Inequities
SOCIAL AWARENESS Lung Cancer Canada’s Faces of Lung Cancer: One Patient, One Diagnosis, Countless Casualties is an in-depth look at lung cancer in Canada and uses the results of the 2015 patient and caregiver survey to give voice to the human toll of this disease. Providing new perspectives on the country’s deadliest cancer, the report speaks […]
Closing In On A Cure For Blood Cancers Closing In On A Cure For Blood Cancers
RESEARCH ADVANCES White blood cells protect us from infection. However, these cells can become cancerous, leading to malignancies including leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma. Just 50 years ago, a diagnosis of one of these blood cancers was usually a rapid death-sentence. We understood very little about how these cancers developed and there were essentially no effective treatments. […]