World Health Day 2021 Rick Waines I was born with an inherited bleeding disorder, hemophilia VIII deficiency. My phenotype is severe, so I need IV therapy every two day to keep from hemorrhaging. This prophylactic therapy wasn’t available for the first 20 years or so of my life and so I bled a
Read MoreDr. Paul Daeninck MD MSc FRCPC I am honoured to be asked to write this guest post in recognition of World Cancer Day 2021 for the CAPT blog. Being a medical oncologist and palliative medicine consultant for close to 25 years has provided me with a number of memorable encounters with wonderful people with cancer
Read MoreIntersecting cancer research and cancer awareness: The “STORY Study” In 2019, I had the opportunity to mark World Cancer Day with an inaugural blog for CAPT sharing my experiences as a researcher to cancer patient to cancer researcher. I am honoured to be back on February 4th, 2020 World Cancer Day, this time sharing one
Read MoreNicole Tsao, PhD, MSc, BSc Pharm It is exciting and somewhat nostalgic to be invited to write this guest blog post in recognition of World Health Day for the CAPT blog. I must admit, prior to now I had thought little about what World Health Day meant. To me, it was just any other
Read More“Most cancer blogs I have read start with ‘I never planned to write a cancer blog.’ Neither did I. No one ever plans to have cancer, much less write about it.” Dr. De Vera on her now-retired cancer blog, maryfullofgrace On this February 4th, World Cancer Day, I am honoured to kick off the new
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