Just a tad…
After loosing one of my good friends this week to cancer, I’ve been trying to figure out all of the aspects of this disease. No matter what your age, cancer can strike. In Ontario alone, one person gets diagnosed with some sort of cancer every eight minutes. A nondiscriminatory disease is what cancer is. Stephen battled a very aggressive cancer that traveled along most of his body from his kidney, to his leg, up to his arm and finally his brain. As I deal with his loss, I’ve turned my attention to finding out more about cancer and the research that is going on here in Canada to fight it. I had actually thought about writing on this very subject a couple of weeks ago after finding out that Andy Barrie was doing a project on cancer for CBC Radio One called “First the Bad News…”. An 8-part series about the cancer journey at Princess Margaret Hospital, from the perspective of patients, the clinical team and research scientists. You can link to the series below. Also I’ve placed some external links if you want to find out more about the hospitals and programs involved in cancer here in Ontario.
Princess Margaret Hospital
Hamilton Health Sciences
Mount Sinai Hospital
Cancer Care Ontario
Toronto Central Regional Cancer Program
Canadian Cancer Society
Finally bring it back to Stephen, if you haven’t already gotten this information, the family will be holding a viewing on Sunday, February 7th at Glen Oaks Memorial Gardens from 1pm to 5pm. His funeral will be held on Monday, February 8th at 11am also aft Glen Oaks. You can follow this link for directions.
OCC
You can listen to the full series on the CBC Metro Morning Website here or listen to CBC Radio One at 7.40am February 8th to 11th.
The bad news takes many forms… but the bottom line is you’ve been told you have cancer.
But there’s good news for Torontonians who get that diagnosis. They live in one of the top five cancer treatment and research centres in the world.
Our city is home to 60 hospitals, including several research hospitals affiliated with the University of Toronto. This series puts a human face on the journey of cancer – from the perspective of patients, their surgeons, their families and cancer researchers.
Of the thousands of Canadians diagnosed with cancer, more than 60 per cent will survive more than five years. The intent of the series is to remember the force of that statistic – a measure of how far we’ve come, but also a reminder of how far we still have to go.
Our series online begins with a personal view of the experience of cancer, and an overview of the disease as it affects men and women in Canada.
