This week we have contributions from Marc, Lynn, and Carmel sitting in this week for Wojtek who is on vacation.
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of his “I am Ballsy” awareness campaign
© Samantha Hitchcock
This week on the show…I have an interesting and medically important story of one man’s effort to raise awareness of the issue of testicular cancer.
Thomas Cantley, a testicular cancer survivor, realized that in the media, there is little promotion, awareness, or attention given to mens’ diseases like prostate and testicular cancer. To help change that, but on a one-to-one basis, he spent time this summer travelling across Canada rolling his large flesh-coloured ball to attract attention to the little promoted but serious issue of the increasing number of cases of testicular cancer as part of his campaign called “I am Ballsy”.
Lynn Desjardins covered a story about how Canadian researchers have found a way to communicate with patients previously thought to be in a vegetative state.
with people previously thought to be in a vegetative
state © CBC
They discovered that a patient who was in a vegetative state since a car accident 12 years earlier, was not vegatative at all but in fact did know who he was, where he was, and could answer questions using a new high tech method.
Lynn spoke to the the researcher at Western University in Ontario.
and Carmel brings us the story of the first “Mariners” day. which was observed last Sunday in Nova Scotia. It’s a commemorative event to recogize all the people who’ve made their living at sea for the last 400 years. It is now to become an annual event to salute those who risk their lives harvesting our food from the sea, and also to remember the many who have lost
Scotia in February 2013. © CP / Andrew Vaughan
their lives in what can be a dangerous profession.
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