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Stories
This truly is a life-saving program, and we are so grateful to Husky Energy for making it happen.
Great progress has been made
Some cancers, such as thyroid and testicular, have survival rates of over 90%. Other cancers, such as pancreatic, brain and esophageal, continue to have very low survival rates.
