About Us

The Alberta CancerBridges team is a large provincial collection of professionals and survivors with special interest in researching and delivering evidence-based survivorship care.The team members include researchers, physicians, oncologists and survivors located mostly in Alberta. For more information on the members of the team, please see Who We Are.

Vision:

Alberta cancer survivors with the information and resources they need to make the rest of their lives the best of their lives.

Mission:

To engage and empower cancer survivors throughout their cancer journey by providing support, information and opportunities to be directly involved in their healing.

Goals:

To be the “clearinghouse” of survivorship resources and programs for the province of Alberta and to increase enrollment in all survivorship programs in the province.

To provide assistance in providing supportive care in areas where services are limited.

To educate survivors about recent developments/research in cancer survivorship.

To facilitate participant accrual in CancerBridges research and be the ‘program’ arm of the CancerBridges Team, turning research into action.

To increase effectiveness of all supportive care resources by facilitating communication and collaboration between Alberta health Services and community-based organizations.

To empower survivors by giving them a voice within the Alberta Health Services system and opportunities to be directly involved in further development of patient centred cancer care.

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