Concerned stakeholders explore how employers can make the experience easier for cancer patients
The cancer diagnosis came as a surprise to the Bay Street accountant last year. He had a family doctor but hadn’t seen him for five years. A comprehensive health assessment (CHA) was a new component of the accountant’s benefits package. So, he figured, why not try it out?
A group of more than 30 Canadian patient groups, physicians and healthcare charities are working together to ensure all Canadian cancer patients have certainty that if cancer strikes them or a loved one they will have fair and equal access to the treatment they need.
About two out of every five Canadians are likely to develop cancer in their lifetime and employers can be more supportive of their workers to help them cope with the disease.
Today is Rare Disease Day and more than 80 countries around the world are participating in the cause.
I have watched someone close to me die of cancer. And it’s not easy. My mother passed away from neuroendocrine cancer almost two years ago, but I remember how quickly she became skeletal, barely recognizable, struggling just to breathe.
Two-thirds of Canadian women are worried about the potential financial implications of cancer diagnoses, says BMO Insurance.
Anne Marie Cerato both belies and represents the image of the modern cancer patient. The vibrant thirtysomething with the energetic voice is not the first person you would identify as being in a clinical trial for Stage 3 lung cancer. But her presence as a speaker at Benefits Canada’s Cancer Care Summit in March is a potent reminder that chronic disease has mostly outgrown the tired old image of previous years.
The 2013 Employers Cancer Care Summit, took place March 5th 2013.