Breast Cancer Awareness Month
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Breast cancer screening vehicle plans underway after $1 million donation$1 million from the Kinsmen Foundation will go to a breast cancer screening vehicle, replacing the Cancer Foundation's current bus.CanadaOct 17, 2023
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Shady, dishonest cancer scams can dupe patients and well-meaning donorsCancer "treatment" scams and dubious marketing techniques can target both patients and those who want to help find a cure.CommentaryOct 31, 2022
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Pink engine doing more than helping fight fires in SaskatoonSaskatoon Fire Department Engine 13 has a pink wrap for all of October for breast cancer awareness month.CanadaOct 6, 2021
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Surrey hospital to perform first surgery of its kind in B.C. to help prevent lymphedemaA Surrey, B.C. hospital will become the first in the province to perform a kind of microsurgery that, at present, is only a available at a handful of medical centres in the world.HealthOct 4, 2021
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‘Outdated’ breast cancer screening guidelines failing Canadian women: reportEach province has its own set of guidelines and not all let women book their own mammograms in their 40s, when the risk of breast cancer increases, experts say.HealthOct 3, 2021
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Nova Scotia first province to include breast density results in all mammogramsThe Nova Scotia health department is encouraging any women who have had a screening done in the last two years to contact their primary health care provide and ask for their breast density information.HealthOct 29, 2019
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Winnipeg restaurant goes pink for 2 years, raising breast cancer awarenessOne Winnipeg restaurant is going above and beyond to raise awareness for breast cancer far beyond the month of October.HealthOct 7, 2019
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Knitted Knockers offer alternative for mastectomy patients in CalgarySince 2015, Knitted Knockers has provided over 5,000 of its hand-knitted breast prostheses to women across the prairies who've undergone a mastectomy.HealthOct 2, 2019
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Physiotherapist helps breast cancer survivors get their bodies backThe Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation states one in four cases of cancer in Canadian women is breast cancer and one in 30 women in Canada will die from the disease.HealthOct 16, 2015
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Yard-full of pink pumpkins “reignited the fight” for cancer fighter"There are strangers delivering pumpkins, it's been really incredible," Deanna said.Oct 7, 2015
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