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July 5, 2016 / News

Nova Scotia doctors vote in favour of new contracts with province

Nova Scotia’s doctors have voted overwhelmingly in favour of two new contracts, Doctors Nova Scotia confirmed Wednesday.   Overall, physicians will see a two-year freeze on fees followed by a...
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July 5, 2016 / News

Uterine cancer risk higher for women with ?breast cancer gene? mutation

Women with a mutation in the BRCA1 gene, which is already linked to breast and ovarian cancers, also face a higher risk of a deadly type of uterine cancer, according...
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July 5, 2016 / News

B.C. eyes options that may be more accurate, accessible than Pap tests

As British Columbia rolls out new cervical cancer screening guidelines that say the procedure should begin later and take place less often, health experts in the province are already looking...
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July 5, 2016 / News

Scientists have started growing tumours in labs so they can learn to destroy them

  British scientists have started work on a revolutionary construction project: building a tumour from its basic biological components.   While the idea of building rather than destroying a tumour...
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June 30, 2016 / News

Bright’s Grove native sharing her experience with colon cancer on stage

  Dani Taylor feels like she's making up big time these days for being a “bratty” cancer patient.   The 26-year-old Bright's Grove native – who survived colon cancer and...
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June 28, 2016 / CCSN News

CCSN?s recent visit to Queen?s Park

Jackie Manthorne, CCSN president & CEO, paid a visit to Queen’s Park in late May to meet with several MPPs and other decision-makers to discuss issues related to cancer survivorship....
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June 28, 2016 / CCSN News

Launch of Lilly Oncology on Canvas 2016

While attending the 2016 conference of the Canadian Association of Psychosocial Oncology (CAPO) in Halifax May 11-13, CCSN president and CEO Jackie Manthorne and Mona Forrest, secretary of CCSN’s Board...
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June 27, 2016 / News

Lab environment in Mission led to cancer, court rules

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled in favour of three Mission Memorial Hospital workers who claimed they developed breast cancer as a result of conditions in their laboratory workplace....
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June 27, 2016 / CCSN News

Asbestos-related cancer costs Canadians billions

A first-ever estimate of the toll of asbestos-related cancers on society pegs the cost of new cases at $1.7-billion per year in Canada, and notes that is likely an under-estimate....
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June 21, 2016 / News

Family doctors don?t always give smokers lung cancer tests

Many family physicians don’t believe lung cancer screening can reduce deaths from these tumors, and some of them don’t offer tests even to longtime smokers, a U.S. survey suggests. Nearly...
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