N.S. team looks to improve quality of life for cancer patients [Video]

A team of doctors and researchers at Dalhousie University in Halifax is looking for ways to improve the quality of life for long-term cancer patients.

The team is spending the next year working on the initiative after receiving funds from a new patient-directed research program led by Terry Fox Research Institute’s Marathon of Hope Cancer Centres Network.

The program was created to address gaps in precision oncology identified by cancer patients, survivors and caregivers.

“Due to advances in precision therapies, more and more people are living longer with advanced cancers. This is excellent progress. Unfortunately though, we have little information around how to best support and care for this growing population of Canadians,” says Dr. Robin Urquhart, an associate professor in Dalhousie University’s Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, and one of the researchers selected for the project.

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