UPDATE OVARIAN CANCER TREATMENT IN CANADA

  • by: Lisa Mckinnon
  • recipient: Barbara Sabourin, Director General, Therapeutic Products Directorate, Health Canada

75% of late stage ovarian cancer patients will not live beyond five years....The current treatments have been used for almost 20 years with little success.... the disease returns.  What is the logic in doing something that doesn't work? The CDN government can improve patient survival by:

-Cut the bureaucratic red tape.   It can take up to 10 years to get new drugs to the patient.  Create a fast track program where promising new drugs can go from research, to clinical trials, to patient much sooner.

More support for research. Because of the huge outpouring of funds for breast cancer, many more lives have been saved.  NOW is the time to improve funding for ovarian cancer.  It is the most deadly gynaecological cancer the third most prevalent.

Aggressive action needed NOW to utilise novel meds with the standard treatment. Bevacizumab and olaparib, two drugs used to help treat ovarian cancer in the USA could be used here if passed by the CDN government.  

Now is the time for Health Canada to update ovarian cancer treatment to support more funding for this deadly, recurrent disease. 

By focusing on the issue and working together we can help save lives.

Update #58 years ago

Only THREE more days to sign petition.
How will Barbara Sabourin know about our concerns for the way this disease is treated if we don't speak up? As one eloquent signer noted, there ARE CURES out there, right now, they need to be made available HERE. We are vital, contributing citizens, whose voices MUST be heard. so, please tell your friends, family, social sites, acquaintances, to help us out. You might help save a life. This IS doable.
Update #48 years ago
Time is running out to let Barbara know that we matter. We demand access to up and coming meds to help us better survive this dreadful disease. Sign the petition, show you care about the precious lives of these otherwise healthy, vibrant women.
Update #39 years ago
I'm worried we won't reach our target of 1,000 signatures before 4/15. Please forward this petition or share on social sites, so we can move forward to help modernize ovarian cancer regimen. Too many lives lost, then, and now and in the future if we don't do something....
Update #29 years ago
Hello! If you haven't already signed the petition I strongly urge you to consider signing. Stop and think about all the vital lives lost and that will be if we don't do something. Let's convince the CDN gov to fast track promising novel drugs for compassionate reasons as done for people with other deadly cancers. Thank you to all that signed and left sensitive msgs. and those who shared via social websites.
Update #19 years ago
REMINDER: Please take a minute to sign the petition, to upgrade ovarian cancer drugs and treatments. We must get the CDN gov to move forward to fight this deadly disease. Thank You, Lisa
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