The Coalition Priorité Cancer au Québec is pleased

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New Colorectal Cancer Screening Program
The Coalition Priorité Cancer au Québec is pleased
Montreal, March 8, 2013 – The Coalition Priorité Cancer au Québec is pleased with today’s
announcement by Dr. Réjean Hébert at the National Forum on the Cancer Research Action Plan
(Forum national sur le Plan d’action en cancérologie) held in Montreal about the Quebec-wide
implementation of the Colorectal Cancer Screening Program based on the fecal occult blood test in eight
demonstration centres.
However, the Coalition would have liked for this program to be accessible throughout all Quebec regions
and, though conscious of resource limitations, urges the Minister of Health and Social Services to speed
up its implementation process so that the entire population may benefit. Early colorectal cancer detection
can save lives.
The Coalition asks the minister to ensure that sufficient resources will be available to the facilities to
guarantee the success of this program’s implementation.
About the Coalition Priorité Cancer au Québec
Coalition Priorité Cancer au Québec was founded in 2001 to protect, support and give a voice to people
affected by cancer (patients, survivors, informal caregivers, their families and their loved ones, as well as
cancer-related community organizations and health professionals) and to help organize the fight against
cancer. Because of the contribution of these organizations and members, the Coalition’s membership
represents close to 1.5 million people.
The members are :
Alliance du personnel professionnel et technique de la santé et des services sociaux (APTS), Association des radio-oncologues du
Québec (AROQ), Association du cancer de l'Est du Québec, Association des laryngectomisés de Montréal Inc, Care-Ring-Voice
Network, Canadian Breast Cancer Network (CBCN), Colorectal Cancer Association of Canada (CCAC), Association québécoise des
registraires en oncologie (AQRO), Association des retraitées et retraités de l’éducation et des autres services publics du Québec
(AREQ), Centre d'action bénévole de Bellechasse - Lévis - Lotbinière (Espoir Cancer), Chaire de recherche en environnement
cancer Guzzo de l’université de Montréal, Chaire de recherche et de traitement du cancer de l’UQAM, Conseil pour la protection
des malades (CPM), Quebec Clinical Research Organization in Cancer (Q-CROC), Fédération des comités des usagers et de
résidents du Québec (FCURQ), Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Québec (FTQ), Fondation Rêvez la vie, Foundation
of Stars, Hope and Cope / L'espoir c'est la vie, HPV Awareness Corporation, Institut de l'anémie - Recherche et éducation (IARE),
Lymphoma Foundation Canada, Lymphedema Association of Quebec, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada, Mains de l’espoir
de Charlevoix, Myeloma Canada, Nova Montréal, Ordre des technologues en imagerie médicale, en radio-oncologie et en électrophysiologie
médicale du Québec (OTIMROEPMQ), Ordre professionnel des technologistes médicaux du Québec (OPTMQ), Organisme gaspésien
pour les personnes atteintes de cancer (OGPAC), Organisation québécoise pour les personnes atteintes de cancer (OQPAC); Ovaire espoir
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Québec, Ovarian Cancer Canada (OCC), Palliative Home-care Society of Greater Montreal, ProCure-The Force Against Prostate
Cancer, Professionnals Networking for Caregivers, Quebec Lung Association (QLA), Regroupement provincial des comités des
usagers (RPCU), Réseau des femmes en environnement, Réseau FADOQ, Save Your Skin Foundation, The Alliance of the Cultural
Communities for Equality in Health and Social Services (ACCÉSSS), The Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia Society of Canada.
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Coalition Priorité Cancer au Québec
Information: Sylvie Piché
Communication consultant
514-868-2009, ext. 225
[email protected]
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