N.S. community leaders raise funds to fight blood cancer in ‘Man and Woman of the Year’
The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada’s annualis a 10-week fundraiser between top leaders in communities across Canada. All funds raised go to blood cancer research and support for people living with blood cancer in Atlantic Canada.
According to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada, blood cancer is the fifth most diagnosed cancer in Canada. Some 128,000 Canadians are diagnosed with blood cancers every year and 180,000 are living with or in remission from the disease. It is also the most common cancer diagnosis among children. In Atlantic Canada, there are 1,800 patients diagnosed with blood cancer every year.
Blood cancers, an umbrella term for cancers that affect blood cells, include lymphoma, leukemia and multiple myeloma. “There’s nothing we can do to prevent blood cancer,” says Dr. Claude Perreault, a professor of medicine at the Université de Montréal and an investigator at the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer. “There’s no behaviour, no life habit that has any impact on blood cancer.
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