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.
Working together to answer Canada’s cancer questions
June 10, 2010 - Impact is about making a difference, about having a demonstrable effect. With a large-scale population health challenge as complex as controlling cancer, collectively we need to make significant headway on many fronts. We must address needs that range from catching cancer earlier and improving quality across the cancer system, to supporting patients through the cancer journey, driving innovative research, and of course, improving disease prevention.
June 6 marks the 23rd annual National Cancer Survivors Day
June 4, 2010 – With nearly one million Canadians among an increasing population of cancer survivors, there is a growing need to address the needs of patients and their families after their active treatment in the cancer care system ends. While their lives have been altered, often profoundly, by their cancer diagnosis and treatment, many people go from active treatment to survivorship with very little information and few tools to prepare them for the complexities of this transition. As a result, many people report feeling isolated and overwhelmed during this time.
May 19, 2010 – Today the Canadian Cancer Society released its annual cancer statistics report focusing on care and support for dying cancer patients. The Society highlights that action is needed to ensure palliative care services are in place to meet the needs of patients now and in the future.
New campaign will help Canadians find the right words to have a "colonversation"
March 25, 2010 – Toronto – Finding the right words may not seem easy, but a simple conversation about getting checked for colon cancer can save a life. A recent poll by Leger Marketing reports nearly half of Canadians 50 to74 are not comfortable suggesting loved ones get checked for colon cancer because they are afraid of embarrassing them. They should not be too concerned: the poll also showed that Canadians would rather talk about getting checked for colon cancer than about relationship problems, weight loss or money.
TORONTO - March 11, 2010 – Canada’s cancer care system is not meeting the unique needs of young cancer patients. Adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer patients and survivors often 'fall through the cracks' of a system that focuses on cancer in children or adults, but does not provide specialized care for this in-between group. To understand why and develop solutions, an international group of young survivors and cancer specialists will come together in Toronto.
"The incidence of cancer is increasing in the AYA population. And, although AYA survival rates are increasing, they have not kept pace with improving survival rates in children and adults," says Dr. Brent Schacter, an adult hematologist/oncologist with CancerCare Manitoba.
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, 
March 25, 2010 – Toronto – Finding the right words may not seem easy, but a simple conversation about getting checked for colon cancer can save a life. A recent poll by Leger Marketing reports nearly half of Canadians 50 to74 are not comfortable suggesting loved ones get checked for colon cancer because they are afraid of embarrassing them. They should not be too concerned: the poll also showed that Canadians would rather talk about getting checked for colon cancer than about relationship problems, weight loss or money.