The CADTH Symposium is an annual event that brings together producers and users of evidence-based information on drugs and health technologies for productive discussions and information sharing. These free webinars are presented live from the 2016 CADTH Symposium in Ottawa, Ontario. Webinar Topics Include: Oral Presentations on Patient and Public (more…)
The Canadian Pharmacists Association has commissioned a report to look at estimated costs of a national Pharmacare program in Canada. Their findings suggest that existing proposals are impractical, disruptive, and the potential for cost savings is overstated. Specific concerns from the report suggest that the existing proposals: replace the increasingly effective (more…)
The Analytic Capacity Building Initiative at the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (CPAC) would like to invite you to attend a webinar on “The health and economic impacts of opportunistic vs organized lung cancer screening in Canada” on March 31st 2016 from 12-1 pm EST. The webinar will be presented by (more…)
A recent self-reported study was published by Cancer this week titled Self-reported financial burden of cancer care and its effect of physical and mental health-related quality of life among US cancer survivors. The study focused on the out-of–pocket spending that Americans with cancer must spend due to their illness. With the increase of (more…)
New Guidelines on lung cancer screening was published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal Monday March 7th 2016. In the new screening guidelines strongly suggests that current and former smokers between the ages of 55-74 get screened for lung cancer annually. In screening regularly it gives doctor’s the ability to (more…)
The Canadian Centre for Applied Research in Cancer Control has now added a Links page to our website. The links page directly connects you to other organizations webpages that are relevant to applied cancer control. You can visit the new page by Clicking Here. If you have any suggestions for (more…)
In the recent Current Oncology: Canadian Costing Supplement many ARCC members research has been highlighted. For these researchers we would like to send out a big congratulations! This supplement that has been co-edited by Nicole Mittmann (Cancer Care Ontario, Toronto, Ontario), and Claire de Oliveria (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, (more…)
We are proud to announce that an ARCC funded study led by Dr. Sonya Cressman and published in The Oncologist has been selected as a CME offering. Their article titled: “A time-trend economic analysis of cancer drug trials” is available for a Maximum of 1 credit unit course. The target (more…)
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