Health Insight
ISSUE: Cancer Care (2021)
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Cancer Care and Support
Bridging knowledge gaps for cancer patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals, while showcasing new treatment options for patients.
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Innovative Clinical Trial Brings Hope to Ovarian Cancer Patients
Ovarian cancer treatments need advancements with promising potential therapies, and clinical trials with immunological treatments are bringing hope. Ovarian cancer is one of the most serious of women’s cancers as most patients aren’t diagnosed until the disease has reached an advanced stage. Each year, roughly 3,000 Canadians are diagnosed with this life-threatening disease. Innovations in...
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How Servier Canada Is Pouring New Investment Into Cancer Care
As the world looks to the pharmaceutical industry for hope, Servier Canada is redefining itself as an ethical research leader with a broad mandate. When Chantal Boucher first left nursing for the pharmaceutical industry, her friends and colleagues questioned her decision of leaving her role as a front line worker, taking care of patients. But,...
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Research Is a Lifeline for Children with Cancer
Cancer treatment is never one size fits all. Access to research and clinical trials is critical for patients — for children — like Ashton and Gabby.
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New Vaccine Helps Boost Immunity in Cancer Patients
A Canadian team is researching how we can strengthen the immune system of cancer patients to better protect them against COVID-19. For people living with cancer, COVID-19 has serious implications. Cancer patients’ immune systems are compromised, making them more vulnerable if they’re infected with the virus. It’s also difficult for those undergoing cancer treatment to...
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The Next Steps for Precision Oncology in Canada
Exactis Innovation is a pan-Canadian research network that accelerates biomarker-led clinical and translational research in areas of high-unmet medical need. Precision Medicine in Cancer Care The past decade has seen the emergence of precision medicine, a complicated method of cancer treatment in which different molecular variants found in tumours guide oncologists to the use of...
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Cancer Patients Need Access to Care Services
Safe and timely access to essential cancer care — including diagnostics, testing and treatment — must remain a top priority across Canada during any crisis. The Canadian Cancer Survivor Network (CCSN) recently conducted its second Léger survey on the disruption of cancer care in Canada during the pandemic. We learned that our community shares deep...
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A Phase III Clinical Trial (FLORA-5) for Advanced Ovarian Cancer
Ovarian cancer is categorized as advanced once the cancer has spread away from its site of origin in the pelvis. OncoQuest is grateful to all the listed investigators in Canada for participating in FLORA-5, which begins enrolling on May 1, 2021. Many clinical trials are currently taking place to look at new ways to prevent,...
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Prevent and Protect Your Skin From Cancer
Prevention and early detection are the best defence against skin cancer, which is very treatable if caught early, and the risk factors are well-known. Did you know that more than 80,000 Canadians are diagnosed with skin cancer every year? Over 8,000 of those are melanoma, the most dangerous form of skin cancer. There’s a myth...
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Kidney Cancer Canada: By Patients, for Patients
Kidney Cancer Canada is a community of patients, caregivers, and health professionals who work together to support every Canadian touched by kidney cancer. Two patients, Deb Maskens and the late Tony Clark met accidently in a waiting room at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in 2006. They made a goal — to form a small...