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LETTER: Early cancer screening matters – your story does too

June is National Cancer Survivors Month – a time to honour the courage and resilience shown by cancer patients and their families, and to focus on the work ahead.

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For me, that work includes advocating for earlier colon cancer screening. I was diagnosed at 48, two years before I would have been eligible for routine screening in Nova Scotia. Like so many others, I was young, active, and had no family history. Colon cancer wasn’t even on my radar until it changed my life.

That’s why........

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