Advocacy
At Breast Cancer Canada, advocacy isn’t just a priority—it’s a commitment to action. We work to ensure that every person diagnosed with breast cancer, regardless of age, location, ethnicity, or gender, has equitable access to cutting-edge care, life-changing treatments, and the latest innovations.
We don’t just raise awareness—we push for policy change, demand better access, and challenge the status quo to drive real progress from coast to coast.
Evidence-Based Decision Making
We take advocacy to the decision-making table, ensuring patient voices shape national and provincial health policies. Through direct engagement with policymakers, media relations, and public education, we bring urgency to the need for change.
Progress Through Education
Knowledge is power, and we ensure that patients and the public have access to the most up-to-date, research-backed information. Our advocacy amplifies lived experiences so that research, treatment, and health policies reflect the realities of those impacted by breast cancer.
Improving Access to Treatments
Access to innovative treatments isn’t a privilege—it’s a necessity. By pushing for policies that prioritize patient-centered decision-making, we hold decision-makers accountable, ensuring that breast cancer care in Canada is not only effective but also fair and accessible to all.
Advocacy for National Impact
Access to innovative treatments isn’t a privilege—it’s a necessity. By pushing for policies that prioritize patient-centered decision-making, we hold decision-makers accountable, ensuring that breast cancer care in Canada is not only effective but also fair and accessible to all.
Bringing together Canada’s top breast cancer clinicians to accelerate progress through research-driven collaboration.
A patient education tool tailored to individual diagnoses. With over 50 types of breast cancer, we provide relevant, up-to-date education that empowers patients to make informed decisions.
A national Patient-Reported Outcomes study integrating real-world patient experiences into research and policy to ensure the realities of breast cancer are fully understood and acted upon.
“Advocacy is at the heart of everything we do at Breast Cancer Canada. It’s how we turn research into action. Progress in breast cancer care doesn’t happen in isolation, it happens when research, education and advocacy move forward together.”
CDA Submissions
Breast Cancer Canada plays a leading role in drug access submissions, in efforts to ensure patient and clinician voices drive decisions on new medications, treatments and technologies. We don’t wait for change—we demand it. Our submissions expose critical gaps in care, break down barriers to access, and advocate for the approval of cutting-edge therapies that have the power to transform lives.
Access to innovative treatments isn’t a privilege—it’s a necessity. By pushing for policies that prioritize patient-centred decision-making, we hold decision-makers accountable, ensuring that breast cancer care in Canada is not only effective but also fair and accessible to all.
Recent submissions:
Featured Articles
Breast Cancer Canada Applauds Federal Commitment to Modernize Preventive Health Guidelines
Breast Cancer Canada proudly celebrates the federal government’s response to the External Expert Review (EER) of the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care, and the sweeping reforms it recommends
Progress Through Research
Latest Research
Breast Cancer Canada donations fund life-saving research that directly impacts Canadian patients. That means better answers, bigger breakthroughs – and more personalized treatment for every breast cancer diagnosis.
Patient Tools
Our suite of digital tools are each designed to help individuals better manage their breast cancer journey through education, research and personalized insights, while also elevating the patient voice.
Patient Stories
Every breast cancer journey is unique, but together, these stories paint a powerful picture of progress. Through firsthand accounts from patients and survivors, we share stories that highlight the lived-experiences of breast cancer.
Fuel Progress
Progress happens when we invest in it. Canada is home to some of the world’s brightest minds in research. Together, we are advancing science, ensuring it leads to earlier detection, better treatments, and improved outcomes for patients across the country.
