Patient Activation: Evidence Says Some Breast Cancer Patients Might Not Need Chemo

June 18th 2018

An extensive study has recently determined that most women with a common, early-stage form of breast cancer can safely skip chemotherapy without increasing their risk of cancer recurrence. The study focused on patients where the benefits of having chemotherapy weren’t entirely clear, for women with hormone-positive breast cancers that had not spread to the lymph […]

Having Courageous Conversations

June 7th 2018

Bonney Elliott, a Cancer Coach at the Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation, shares her insight on having some of life’s more difficult conversations with the people in your life when someone is facing cancer.  As a Cancer Coach, it is a privilege to walk alongside people living with cancer and their loved ones as they deal […]