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 E-bulletin | March 2009 |
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Cancer Journey: Boosting integrated person-centred care
Helping shift care from "tumour-centred" to "person-centred"
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The Cancer Journey Action Group is bringing together experts in screening for distress and navigation to drive forward action on these important elements of cancer care.
Team members are working in partnership with health-care providers, survivors and cancer patients to offer the support, tools and training needed for local staff and organizations to establish programs that meet the specific needs of local patient populations across Canada.
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Strategic Initiative: Guideline Adaptation Project
Evidence-based principles, knowledge-to-action key elements
Through the Guideline Adaptation Project, the Partnership's Cancer Guidelines Action Group is making it possible to extend the reach of existing cancer control guidelines.
The project is developing and evaluating a methodology to facilitate the work of groups who are adapting existing guidelines.
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In conversation with Jon Kerner
The Chair of the Partnership's Primary Prevention Action Group discusses a new approach to cancer prevention.
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Jon Kerner, PhD, is Chair of the Primary Prevention Action Group as well as the Partnership's senior scientific advisor for cancer control and knowledge translation. Before joining the Partnership, he was deputy director for research dissemination and diffusion of the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences at the U.S. National Cancer Institute. Read more... |
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Canadian Virtual Hospice
Online resource helps Canadians facing end-of-life concerns
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The Canadian Virtual Hospice has launched an expanded website to provide information and support for end-of-life care.
"Canadians need to know there's a place where they can turn for support and information when a loved one is seriously ill, no matter where they live," says Shelly Cory, Executive Director of the Canadian Virtual Hospice. Read more...
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