Employers should reach out early and often to employees facing a cancer crisis, according to a man with first-hand experience. Asaph Benun told attendees at Benefits Canada’s 2017 Employers Cancer Care Summit in February his life took a major turn five years ago following his six-month-old son’s diagnosis with a rare blood cancer that doctors […]
The old saying about an ounce of prevention being worth a pound of cure works just as well when it comes to cancer care as it does for any other medical ailment, if you ask Dr. Jeffrey Rothenstein. The medical oncologist at the R.S. McLaughlin Durham Regional Cancer Centre told the audience at Benefits Canada’s […]
“I had no idea.” “How can that be?” “Just doesn’t make any sense.” “But even if it keeps you alive?” These are just some of the responses I heard from neighbours and acquaintances a few years ago after a local paper quoted me in a story on cancer drug funding. In the article, I discussed […]
In 2014, there were approximately five new cancer diagnoses per 1,000 Canadians outside of Quebec, according to Statistics Canada. In total, there were more than 137,000 new diagnoses. The majority of newly diagnosed Canadians were aged 50 and older (87.8 per cent), compared to those between 25 and 49 (11 per cent) and those under […]
When it came to her workplace experience while undergoing cancer treatment, Lisa Redmond lived in what she admits was a “fairy-tale world.” Not only does she work for a large public employer, the Insurance Corp. of British Columbia, she’s its manager of pension and benefits. So she was in a good position to take advantage […]
At the 2016 Employers Cancer Care Summit in Toronto in February, Benefits Canada presented the results of exclusive research into the workplace experience of employees diagnosed with or treated for cancer. Get a PDF […]
The development of new cancer treatments has created an opportunity to turn some cancers into chronic, manageable diseases and allow many people to return to work. That was one of the key messages at the 2016 Employers Cancer Care Summit as an expert panel discussed the rise and implications of the new treatments for the […]
How do employees with cancer feel about their benefits programs during treatment? What new treatments are emerging that will affect the workplace? With panels of experts and exclusive research on employee experience in the workplace with cancer, Benefits Canada’s 2016 Employers Cancer Care Summit helped employers boost their knowledge of the challenges they’ll be facing. […]
Gaps in coverage persist even as almost two-thirds of employees diagnosed with cancer feel their workplace benefit plan played a significant role in helping them manage their cancer, according to Benefits Canada research. At the 2016 Employers Cancer Care Summit, attendees heard the results of Benefits Canada’s research and looked at how well benefits plans […]
As the manager of a benefits plan, Lisa Redmond’s perspectives changed when she learned she had breast cancer and had to access the benefits from the perspective of a plan member rather than a plan sponsor. “For me, much of these programs, and the value of these benefits, was basically theoretical in nature as I […]