e-5118 (Health)
Original language of petition: English
Petition to the Government of Canada
- An estimated twenty-seven Canadians are diagnosed with a brain tumour each day;
- Less than three in ten Canadians diagnosed with a primary malignant brain tumour survive five years after their diagnosis;
- Brain cancer research is critically underfunded in Canada;
- Canada is years behind the United States in approving new drugs and treatments, which could have an impact on thousands of brain cancer patients;
- Even when new brain cancer therapies are approved, they are not always made equally accessible to patients across the country; and
- There continues to be a shortage of brain cancer drugs in Canada, and some medications even become discontinued.
- Open for signature
- September 4, 2024, at 8:31 a.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- January 2, 2025, at 8:31 a.m. (EDT)