Author: Nancy Shie, B.Sc.

A staggering half of the Canadian population will develop cancer at some point in their lives. This year, in 2017, over 200 000 new cases of cancer were diagnosed in Canada, and about 80 000 people died from cancer-related illness. Cancer is a word heard more and more frequently with our growing lifespan, thanks to 21st-century healthcare, but cancer itself isn’t a disease that we can wholly cure with our technology just yet.