The past, present and future of cancer care

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English - October 12, 2022 10:00 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MB
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There have been scores of drug approvals across the globe for treating cancer in recent years, and the right combination of treatment and patient can lead to longer, better living with the disease. With all these breakthroughs on top of years of experience in care administration, how much has the patient experience changed?

Professor David Stewart, medical oncologist and professor of medicine at the University of Ottawa and Ottawa Hospital, has compiled his decades of clinical experience, practise and research into his new book. He looks at the rate of progress in detecting and treating different cancers, what risks towards cancer can occur in life, how successful different healthcare systems are in caring for cancer patients.

A Short Primer On Why Cancer Still Sucks is available via Amazon: : https://www.amazon.com/Short-Primer-Cancer-Still-Sucks/dp/0228871999