Plan to battle cancer faster

By News on the Net —— Bio and Archives June 11, 2011

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By: Larry Kusch, Winnipeg Free Press Jeff Cook has seen the good and the bad of cancer care in Manitoba.

The 42-year-old occupational therapist was just 18 when he was diagnosed with testicular cancer, received treatment almost immediately and survived. His sister, Jean, wasn't so lucky. She contracted colorectal cancer in her mid-40s. It took six long months for her condition to be fully diagnosed and treatment to begin. She died in 2007 at the age of 46.