Powerful Video Series Shares Canadians’ Stories About Living With Cancer 

TORONTO – August 10, 2010 – Every person’s cancer experience is unique – but common themes along the way provide insights that can help to improve care. This is the idea behind the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer’s new online video series, The Truth of It (www.cancerview.ca/thetruthofit). Developed in collaboration with the Health Design Lab, part of the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, The Truth of It features interviews with Canadians diagnosed with cancer who were asked to share their story so others could learn from their experience. By providing candid accounts of the personal impact of cancer, the video series will serve as an educational resource for health care professionals as well as patients, survivors and others with a personal connection to cancer.

New report explores economic impact of skin cancer and the power of prevention

July 30, 2010 - A new Partnership report, The Economic Burden of Skin Cancer in Canada: Current and Projected, examines melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer and explores how a comprehensive cancer prevention program could help reduce the number of cases and deaths, and the costs associated with the disease.  

Cancer research funders commit to 24 key action items in country’s first pan-Canadian cancer research strategy 

TORONTO - June 16, 2010 - A new strategy to help coordinate cancer research investment across Canada will enable the country’s cancer research funders to make faster progress on shared priorities and maximize the impact of cancer research funding in Canada -- in turn enabling more Canadians to benefit from new discoveries.