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Our Research

Creating a provincial-wide database

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Exploring data to improve health outcomes

Recent data from the Canadian Cancer Society offers a heartbreaking glimpse into our current reality here in Nova Scotia. Women in our province face the highest mortality rate following a breast cancer diagnosis compared to any other province in Canada. Urgent research is needed to understand this alarming trend, as there is no existing research to explain why it is occurring.

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Thanks to the generous funding from the JW Murphy Foundation, we are committed to driving meaningful and measurable improvements in women's breast health across Nova Scotia.

 

By integrating and analyzing provincial healthcare data, we can identify gaps in the system and provide valuable insights to guide future cancer care strategies. This work has the potential to significantly enhance patient care and outcomes for breast health across the province.

"As a team of cancer surgeons who devote 50% of our time to treating patients with breast disease, we believe that long wait times, lack of primary care access, poor coordination of care, and a high prevalence of comorbidities in our patients contribute to this trend." 
"We do not have the data or numbers to answer why. 

We cannot fix what we do not know to be broken. 

We cannot analyze what has not been measured."

- Dr. Ashley Drohan and Dr. Gregory Knapp

Breast Health Program surgeons at IWK Health 

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