Photos 2006
December 31, 2006
CITY TV News anchor Anne Mroczkowski interviewed four Man to Man survivors on Monday September 18, 2006, the first day of Prostate Cancer Awareness Week. Pictured above from left to right are: Anne, Ray St-Sauveur, Aaron Bacher, Mark Dailey (also a CITY TV anchor) and Ron Foreman.
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If you’re diagnosed
December 16, 2006
ERIN ANDERSSEN
From the Globe and Mail, Saturday, December 9, 2006
Prepare for appointments. Bring someone along to keep notes. Buy a tape recorder to use when you meet your doctor. Make a list of questions, and ask the most important ones first in case the doctor gets called away.
‘Follow the paper.’ Ask for copies of all your test results. Find out where they will be sent and when you can expect to get them. If you don’t hear back on time, call the office and find out their status. Breast-cancer survivor Virginia Yule, 56, puts it this way: “If you were having a refrigerator delivered on Tuesday, and it didn’t come at 11, by 12 you would be on the phone to see where it was. Papers do get lost . . . and if you don’t follow up on it yourself, you are partially responsible for it not being found.”
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