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It’s a great thing to live through cancer and be able to tell about it. But survivorship comes with its own set of issues – financial, physical and emotional. Calgary’s […]

Whether you’re well or coping with illness, it may help your health to spend a little time thinking about the end

Al-Noor Nenshi Nathoo, executive director of Provincial Health Ethics Network (PHEN), offers some examples of complicated issues that may come up for patients, families, health-care providers, cancer treatment centres or […]

When health-care providers meet their patients, one of the first things they do is assess patients’ vital signs: body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure respiratory rate and pain level. But […]

The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation – Tumour Bank collects, properly stores and documents information for all donated tumour tissues. Researchers in Alberta (and elsewhere) can access these tissues for research. […]

Cancer is not the only cause of death. It’s possible to get too wrapped up in the fact that our time on earth is limited, but it doesn’t hurt to […]

Stories are the way we deal with our experiences, great and small. It’s no surprise they help us cope with cancer

John de Munnik plays the Silent Waiter

From tips to avoiding cancer and busting up your workout to cutting-edge radiation therapy, Leap mines the experts for nuggets of golden health info