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A new social media campaign has been launched to draw attention to the stories of families who’ve lost loved ones to cancer acquired from working at the General Electric plant in Peterborough in the 1990s. The campaign names Families in Waiting that uses both Twitter and Instagram (see @loriinwaiting). Click here to read the article.

Michel Plante was diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2014, and prostate cancer in less than a year later. He decides to take legal action because he claims he developed cancer from radiation exposure at work. His claim is backed by the labour tribunal in Quebec. Click here to read the article.

A new study is being conducted at the Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine to investigate a potential link between toxic metals such as cadmium, arsenic and prostate cancer. It is a collaboration between Dalhousie University, University of New Brunswick, Mount Allison University, the Atlantic Partnership for Tomorrow’s Health Study and the University of British Columbia. Click …

A collection of more than 30,000 toenail clippings from Atlantic Canadians is being conducted by the researchers to determine whether there is a correlation between exposure to toxic metals and prostate cancer. The research is led by Anil Adisesh of Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick and Dr. Trevor Dummer of the University of British Columbia. Click …

World Cancer Day is an initiative of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) in the fight against cancer. There are 496 activities planned for World Cancer Day 2018 that will be on Sunday, February 4.