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	News anchor Tom Clark led off a recent CTV evening newscast with a dramatic report on cancer: &quot;Some disturbing news tonight on a devastating disease that touches the lives of almost every single family in this country. A group called the Canadian Cancer Advocacy Coalition suggests that where you live and how much your province spends on cancer care goes a very long way in determining whether you will survive the disease.&quot; After studying seven years of cancer statistics, the group had found that British Columbia spends the most on cancer, and enjoys the lowest death rates. &quot;But, as you move east, spending drops, death rates rise. Far fewer cancer patients survive in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia where the least amount is spent on cancer care,&quot; CTV said.</p>
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	Dr. William Hryniuk of CCAC didn&#39;t mince words in calling for a national cancer strategy. &quot;It&#39;s your money or your life,&quot; he told CTV. &quot;You either get the treatment you need which is going to cost some money, or you don&#39;t survive. It&#39;s that simple.&quot;</p>
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	But Toronto newspaper editors seemed unmoved. Next day, the <i>Star</i> ran a 270-word Canadian Press story on page A16. <i>The Globe &amp; Mail</i> made space for 100 words. Other rivals took a pass. Sadly, no story &mdash; not even CTV&#39;s barnburner &mdash; gave a clear explanation as to who, or what, the CCAC is. Indeed, the Globe didn&#39;t use the group&#39;s name. CTV called it &quot;a group of people desperately concerned about the state of cancer care in Canada &mdash; survivors, their families, doctors and scientists.&quot;</p>
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	A CCAC news release said it&#39;s the &quot;only full-time, registered, non-profit group dedicated solely to citizen advocacy on cancer issues&quot; in Canada. On its website, the group uses the slogan &#39;Grassroots Action for Cancer Care&#39;. But the sponsor list suggests deeper roots in the pharmaceutical trade. Here it is: Amgen Canada Inc., AstraZeneca Canada Inc., Aventis Pharma Inc., Bristol-Myers Squibb Canada Inc., Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association Inc., Eli Lilly Canada Inc., Pharmacia Canada Inc., Purdue Pharma Inc., RX&amp;D&mdash;Canada&#39;s Research Based Pharmaceutical Companies, Sanofi-Sythelabo Canada Inc., and Scotia Bank.</p>
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	This phenomenon of organizations or spokespeople who claim to represent patients is becoming widespread,&quot; said Sharon Batt, author of Patient No More: The Politics of Breast Cancer. &quot;I&#39;ve had cancer myself,&quot;she said, &quot;when you&#39;re desperate for information, this kind of report is very alarmist. You want information you can rely on. Part of what makes a report reliable is where it comes from.&quot;</p>
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	Joel Lexchin, an associate professor in the school of health management at York University, agreed the CCAC report was short on &#39;transparency&#39;. Higher cancer budgets could benefit drug companies by boosting their products, he said, noting readers weren&#39;t told where funds for the report came from. &quot;That should be made known if we are to judge the conclusions,&quot; Lexchin said. The CCAC report was &#39;interesting&#39;, he suggested, but not interesting enough to justify a campaign for bigger cancer budgets.</p>
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	To this corner, media stories about advocacy groups are sadly incomplete when they don&#39;t explain who&#39;s paying the shot. Readers deserve better.</p>
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	Don Sellar, <i>Toronto Star</i>, Feb. 7, 2004.</p>
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