City invites world to breast cancer conference
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The World Conference on Breast Cancer kicks off in Winnipeg today, with 600 international delegates and cancer survivors in attendance.
Barbara Shumeley, president of the non-profit conference, said the event will bring together cancer researchers, physicians and survivors from as far away as Afghanistan and Uganda.
The four-day event includes seminars on how to understand and manage side-effects of breast cancer diagnosis and treatment, interactive healing workshops and presentations on things like breast cancer and sexuality.
This is the first time Winnipeg has hosted the conference, which has been held in four other Canadian cities, including Kingston, Ottawa, Victoria and Halifax.
Shumeley said the World Conference on Breast Cancer Foundation rotates the event between Canadian cities every three years, but is still global in focus since they “invite the world.”
“They want to know what some of the issues are as they’re living with breast cancer; what (is) the chance of recurrence, the latest research about treatment if they have to go through that again,” Shumeley said.
All funds collected for the $1 million conference go towards putting on the event, Shumeley said, along with paying for airfare and accommodation for cancer survivors and some researchers from foreign countries who couldn’t afford it on their own dime.
Although no money goes towards research, Dr. Jim Davie said there is an obvious benefit in connecting cancer patients and survivors with researchers.
Davie, the provincial director of cancer research for CancerCare Manitoba, said conferences like this remind researchers of the importance of their work and keep cancer patients and survivors informed on the most up-to-date advances into the disease.
“It’s awareness,” Davie said. “It gets researchers talking to one another.’
jen.skerritt@freepress.mb.ca