Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) has provided funding to all regional cancer programs in the province to develop and implement a sustainable strategy to transition follow-up care for breast cancer patients. Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer for women ...

New DNA sequencing technologies that have showed great promise in the research community are now beginning to emerge in clinical use. Naturally designed to offer immense capacity and high sensitivity, these systems are well timed to address increasing demand and ...

When Benilda Ariz was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2009, her focus at the time was on surviving. But two years later, her focus switched to returning to her ‘old self’ again. That meant undergoing breast reconstruction surgery. As a Registered ...

Few of us get to experience a moment in our lives like Sheila Scott did, the moment her life began all over again.  For Sheila, that moment took place in the most unlikely spot, knee deep in the beautiful blue ...

A new initiative that is helping to raise awareness about breast reconstruction after a lumpectomy or mastectomy was recently celebrated at both Rouge Valley Health System (RVHS) hospital campuses. National Breast Reconstruction Awareness (BRA) Day, which was celebrated for the first ...

Lori Beth Vickery is among one of the first patients to participate in the new high risk breast screening program at Kitchener’s Grand River Hospital (GRH). In July 2011, the Ontario Breast Screening Program (OBSP) expanded to include women who are ...

Wendy Wilson, 56, had begun to make healthier lifestyle choices but in May 2010 she was told the lump in her right breast wasn’t one of the many benign cysts she had before. She heard those life-altering words: breast cancer. Soon ...