Talk to your doctors about what cancer screening tests are best for you. It could save your life.

We’re working with our federal counterparts through the strategy and I know my colleagues in the provinces are working with their provincial governments and cancer agencies to look at how we can get this program...

We have solid scientific evidence that screening through an organized program can reduce cancer deaths and, in some cases, even the incidence of certain cancers. Existing cancer screening has helped reduce the cancer toll in...

While it’s encouraging that the proportion of women in organized breast cancer screening programs has increased over time, in 2003 participation was only 34 per cent nationally.

The percentage of women who have been screened is probably somewhere between 34 and 61 per cent, and this is too low. However, breast cancer death rates have been declining and screening is one reason...

Because of the long history of high-quality cervical cancer screening in Canada, the benefit achieved so far may be close to the maximum. However, it might be possible to see even further reductions in both...

We would like to see them implemented as quickly as we can, because the longer it takes, the more lives we are losing.