Cancer

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Alternative Press Annual 1983, The
Case, Patricia (ed)
Book
1984
Big Pharma Making a killing: New Internationalist November 2003
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2003
A look at big pharmaceutical companies and issues surrounding their pursuit for profit at the expense of peoples' health.
Cancer is Capitalist Violence: Anthropology Against Oncology
McKenna, Brian
Article
2013
It’s been two decades since the publication of Martha Balsham’s landmark study, “Cancer in the Community: Class and Medical Authority (1993).” Balshem, a hospital-based anthropologist, documented how ...
HealthSources.ca
Website
2017
A web portal featuring information and resources about health, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important arti...
Lobbying for Lives: Lessons from the Front
Canadian Cancer Society
Film/Video
1989
The misbegotten 'war against cancer'
Marqusee, Mike
Article
2009
Pesticides, Neoliberalism and the Politics of Acceptable Death
St. Clair, Jeffrey
Article
2015
In 1900, cancer killed three people in America out of every hundred. Today, it's 33 out of every 100 -- more than one-in-four Americans die from cancer. These figures come from Dr. Joseph Weissman, a ...
The Political Economy of Health
Doyal, Lesley
Book
1979
The Price of Experience: Writings on Living with Cancer
Marqusee, Mike
Book
2014
Writer and political activist Mike Marqusee was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer, in the summer of 2007. At first, disinclined to share his misery with others, he was reluctant ...

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Consumer Health Organization of Canada
Our mission is to improve the quality and longevity of life using the "wholistic approach" encompassing physical, mental, spiritual, social and economic well-being. We publish a newsletter, distribute...
Dying With Dignity
To improve the quality of dying for all Canadians in accordance with their own wishes, values and beliefs.
Non-Smokers' Rights Association
To eliminate the discomfort, disease and risk of premature death caused by environmental tobacco smoke. As a preventive approach, the NSRA is committed to eliminating the tobacco epidemic through the ...
Prevent Cancer Now
To build and sustain a Canada-wide movement that generates both the resolve and action required to eliminate preventable causes of cancer.
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Bone metastases
2016
Bone metastasis is cancer that started in another part of the body and spread to the bone. It's sometimes called secondary bone cancer or metastatic bone disease. Bone metastasis is not the same as ca...
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Recession led to 260k extra cancer deaths, experts claim
Radovitz, Jon Von
2016
Unemployment and austerity were associated with more than 260,000 extra deaths of cancer patients in countries belonging to the Organisation for Economic Development (OECD), a study has shown. Those c...