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 lived to talk about it – is now volunteering at Toronto's Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, sharing her story and advice with patients undergoing treatment in the radiation department. Only three years ago, Taylor herself
Month: June 2016
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. While there, she met with: Andrea Horwath, leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party. Holly Burke, Senior Policy Analyst in the office of Dr. Eric Hoskins, Ontario Minister of Health and Long-Term Care. MPP
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 of Directors, took part in the official launch of Lilly Oncology on Canvas 2016. CCSN is pleased to once again be partnering with CAPO and Lilly in this second Oncology on Canvas. The first
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. Katrina Hammer, Patricia Schmidt and Anne MacFarlane were denied compensation by the Workers’ Compensation Board after being diagnosed with the disease between 2002 and 2005, when medical experts testified that no causal link existed
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. The economic burden of lung cancer and mesothelioma from work-related asbestos exposure in Canada amounts to an average of $818,000 per case, according to a team led by health economist and senior scientist Dr. Emile
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 all family doctors agree that early cancer detection is more likely with low-dose computed tomography (CT) scans taken in a machine that rotates around the body to capture several cross-sectional images of the lungs than