Thursday, September 20, 2007
Sep. 20, 2007 (Canada NewsWire Group delivered by Newstex) -- TORONTO, Sept. 20 /CNW/ - The Cancer Advocacy Coalition (CACC) today issued a call to Ontario voters to challenge all candidates about their commitment to cancer control.
Are you one of the 238,000 Ontario citizens who will be diagnosed with cancer between this election and the next one? Or will you be a caregiver, spouse, colleague, or best friend of the new cancer patient?
At the current rates of cancer incidence 44 percent of men and 39 percent of women will be diagnosed with some form of cancer in their lifetimes. In Ontario, that means 5.2 million people. Included in those numbers are approximately 42,000 children and 202,000 young adults under age 40.
Every family is touched by cancer, everybody has a cancer story, yet Ontario's political parties have said little about how they plan to address it.
The CACC calls on all four political parties in the Ontario election campaign to declare their commitment to controlling cancer by:
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Ontario has the talent and resources to lead the country in cancer control: all it takes is the political will to make it happen. Ask your candidates what they will do to take us there.
The Cancer Advocacy Coalition of Canada annually publishes the Report Card on Cancer in Canada which provides Ontarians with a clear picture of where they stand relative to the rest of the country regarding all aspects of cancer prevention, detection, treatment and care. The Report Card as well as other information about the CACC's work is available at www.canceradvocacy.ca. The CACC is the country's only full-time, registered, non-profit cancer group dedicated to citizen advocacy. The CACC is not a charity and operates on unrestricted grants from sponsors based on guidelines that ensure the organization's autonomy.
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