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Medical Assistance in Dying Use Among Adolescent and Young Adult Patients With Cancer

Question: What are the characteristics and context of adolescent and young adult patients with cancer who use medical assistance in dying (MAID)? Findings: In this retrospective cohort study including 34 adolescent and young adult patients with cancer, symptom burden rose in the year before MAID, with sharp increases beginning around month 5. Seventeen individuals received […]

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Top 10 research priorities for adolescent and young adult cancer in Canada: a James Lind Alliance priority setting partnership

Objectives: Cancer in adolescents and young adults (AYAs; ages 15–39 years) is a rising global epidemic. Yet, AYAs remain an understudied population, and little is known about what research topics should be prioritised according to those with lived experience. The AYA Cancer Priority Setting Partnership (PSP) was established to identify the top 10 research priorities for

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Young cancer patients set Canada’s top research priorities

Researchers at the University of Calgary have developed 10 priorities for working with young people facing cancer. The top priority, determined after a consulting with hundreds of people with adolescent and young adult cancer (AYA) from across Canada, was addressing delays in diagnosis. The rest of the priorities span biomedical, psychosocial, financial, and health‑system challenges, representing a full

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Access to innovative blood cancer treatment: Is it fast enough and equitable for all Canadians?

New cancer drugs are very expensive. Most Canadians could never afford them without public coverage, even if they sold their homes and borrowed money from everyone they knew. Canada does not provide universal pharmacare (drug coverage). Provincial coverage decisions are complex – affected by political interests, changes in government, advocacy efforts, population size, and regional

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Canadian Framework for the Care and Support of Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer

The Canadian Framework for the Care and Support of Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer (the Framework) describes a national vision for the care and support of AYAs with this distressing disease. It was created to ensure AYAs experience meaningful participation, and achieve the best outcomes, throughout care and survivorship, as well as compassionate end-of

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Cancer in Canada: Nearly all Canadians support federal government increasing access to clinical trials

New data from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute in partnership with the Canadian Cancer Society finds nine-in-ten Canadians support increasing access to clinical trials for cancer patients. This comes as most believe these sorts of experimental treatments offer new medicine otherwise unavailable to most cancer patients (80% agree).

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Hereditary cancer, high cholesterol risk for 100,000 Canadians to be checked in genetic screening project

Over the next five years, up to 100,000 people in Ontario will be screened for genetic conditions that increase their risk of hereditary cancers and a condition tied to high cholesterol and heart disease, says Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. In what the hospital calls one of the largest population genomics studies in Canada, the project

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Mélanie’s Way

Welcome to Mélanie’s Way – a Canadian charity that’s all about making a difference in the lives of young women facing metastatic or relapsed cancer (stage 4). Our mission is to provide these women with unique and unforgettable experiences that will maximize their joy and create lasting memories with their loved ones. We believe in

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Kindred Foundation

We are a Canadian Foundation dedicated to investing in three key pillars: Childhood, adolescent, and young adult cancer research and programs Mental and physical health for children, adolescents and young adults Community support including hospice and end-of-life care

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Rethink Breast Cancer

Rethink Breast Cancer is a Canadian charity known for making positive change and rethinking the status quo when it comes to breast cancer. Rethink educates, empowers and advocates for system changes to improve the experience and outcomes of those with breast cancer, focusing on historically underserved groups: women diagnosed at a younger age, those with metastatic

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BioCanRx

The BioCanRx vision is to turn all cancers into curable diseases. We invest in leading edge immune oncology research translating world-class technologies from the lab into early phase clinical trials. BioCanRx provides researchers with access to funding, expertise, training and biomanufacturing facilities and is a leaweder in the translation, manufacture and adoption of cancer immunotherapies.

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Ac2orn

We are committed to advocating for translational research and effective treatments to realize the goal of curing childhood, adolescent, and young adult cancers.

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