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January 29, 2024 / Cancer Can't Wait, CCSN News, News

Nova Scotia Becomes the Latest Province to Create a Lung Cancer Screening Program

The Canadian Cancer Survivor Network congratulates Nova Scotia Health for creating a Lung Cancer Screening Program, announced in January 2024. Screening will be open to the province’s Central Zone Community,...
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January 26, 2024 / News

Priorities for Transforming the Clinical Trials Environment: Ontario’s Ambition to Accelerate Timely Access to Trials and New Therapies

The following is a message from Clinical Trials Ontario. For the full announcement, click here. New position paper from Ontario’s Leadership Table for Clinical Trials Ontario leads the country in...
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January 10, 2024 / News

BC to Test for Cervical Cancer Through HPV Screening

British Columbia is switching to at-home HPV testing to screen for cervical cancer. The human papillomavirus, more commonly known as HPV, causes 70 per cent of all cervical cancer cases....
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December 22, 2023 / News

CADTH calls for Abstract for 2024 Symposium

The following is from Canada's Drug and Health Technology Agency. "We are accepting abstracts for workshops, panels, early morning sessions, oral presentations, and posters for the 2024 CADTH Symposium, to...
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December 19, 2023 / Cancer Can't Wait, News

CCSN Holds First All-party Cancer Caucus in British Columbia

Health Minister Dix Invites CCSN back in 2024 The Canadian Cancer Survivor Network (CCSN) held its first All-party Cancer Caucus on November 29, 2023, at the Grand Pacific Hotel in...
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November 20, 2023 / Cancer Can't Wait

Canadian Cancer Survivor Network holds fall 2023 Ontario All-party Cancer Caucus

Three days later, Deputy Premier and Health Minister Sylvia Jones lowers breast screening age from 50 to 40 CCSN President & CEO Jackie Manthorne opened the October 24, 2023, Caucus...
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November 14, 2023

CCSN Participates in the Canada Healthcare Innovation Summit

Nir Hagigi of the Canadian Cancer Survivor Network participated in the 7th panel of the Canada Healthcare Innovation Summit: Unlocking Access to Therapies & Medicines (Left to Right: William Semchuk, Nir...
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November 13, 2023

Stress and Cancer: A Complex Relationship

International Stress Awareness Day falls at the beginning  of November,  and it highlighted a common question that we  often receive at the Canadian Cancer Survivor Network (CCSN). Even before the...
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November 13, 2023

Two Wins for Cancer Screening in Canada

Cancer Can’t Wait, and two provincial governments in Canada have taken steps to implement early screening. In late October, Ontario Deputy Premier and Health Minister Sylvia Jones announced that starting...
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November 10, 2023 / ACT

Asbestos cement water pipe petition tabled in the House of Commons

The following is a media release from Prevent Cancer Now. For a primer about the issues surrounding asbestos in drinker water in Canada, click here. Prevent Cancer Now (PCN) is...
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