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  3 Things You Can Do to Help Detect Breast Cancer Early

  Get mammograms starting at 40 The evidence is clear: annual mammograms starting at age 40 save the most lives. Seventeen percent of breast cancers occur in women in their 40s, and those cancers are more aggressive. Minority women are more likely to be diagnosed in their 40s. Women in Ontario can’t self-refer for mammograms in...

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  Clinical Trials and the Advancement of Cancer Care

  Today, people are living longer lives due to successful cancer treatments that resulted from clinical trials. Clinical trials are a type of research that involve people and test health-related interventions. Through clinical trials, we determine whether a new intervention is safe and effective, whether it can prevent or detect cancer, whether it helps people live...

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  Inefficiencies in Cancer Care: 6 Ways to Improve Cancer Diagnosis

  Cancer is the leading cause of death in Canada. Due to missed diagnoses during the pandemic, we are now facing an echo pandemic in cancer. Before the pandemic, it was already estimated that 2 in 5 Canadians (40%) would get cancer in their lifetime and 1 in 4 (25%) would die from their disease.  With...

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