Cancer Awarness network
All to increase awareness of breast cancer and raise money to treat it. While people across the Western world are aware of this disease and a handful of other cancers, liver cancer is not on their radar. But that may soon change.It is less prevalent here than in countries where chronic hepatitis B and C, […]
At a time when the general public is more well-informed about cancer than ever before, thyroid cancer remains an unclear and misunderstood disease. There is little known about its causes or how to prevent it. “There is very little awareness about thyroid cancer,” explains Rita Banach, a thyroid cancer survivor and one of the founders […]
Immuno-oncology, also known as immunotherapy or biological therapy, is a relatively new treatment that uses the body’s immune system to fight cancerous cells. “Cancer cells can manipulate the immune system and make it ineffective,” explains Dr. Michael Smylie, professor of medical oncology at the University of Alberta. “All we’re doing [with immuno-oncology] is reversing that […]
In addition to being the fifth most common cancer in Canada, it is the fourth among men and twelfth among women. There are an estimated 80,000 bladder cancer patients in Canada — about 8,300 more are diagnosed every year and 2,300 will die of the disease. “Blood in the urine does not always indicate bladder […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
