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e-5118 (Health)
E-petition
Initiated by Tammy Farand from St. Albert, Alberta
Original language of petition: English
Petition to the Government of Canada
Whereas:
- 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.
We, the undersigned, citizens and residents of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to:
1. Increase funding for brain cancer research;
2. Work with the provinces and territories to ensure that drugs, medical devices, and new therapies are accessible to brain cancer patients nation-wide; and
3. Remove unnecessary red tape so brain cancer drugs can be approved more quickly.
- Open for signature
- September 4, 2024, at 8:31 a.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- January 2, 2025, at 8:31 a.m. (EDT)
