TCC Connected Groups

Thyroid Cancer Canada benefits from liaising with, or being members of several umbrella organizations that serve cancer patients or thyroid cancer patients specifically. They are as follows:

 

Thyroid Cancer Alliance (TCA)

The Thyroid Cancer Alliance is a coalition of eight national thyroid cancer patient advocacy and support organizations from Europe and the Americas.

www.thyroid-cancer-alliance.org

 

 

 

 

Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (CPAC)

The Canadian Partnership Against Cancer is an independent organization funded by the federal government to accelerate action on cancer control for all Canadians. They are a partnership of cancer experts, charitable organizations, governments, patients and survivors, determined to bring change to the cancer control domain.  This organization has a budget of $220 million dollars for a five year grant period. It has several programs, projects and subgroups.

www.partnershipagainstcancer.ca

Cancer View Canada

Cancer View Canada (a CPAC program) connects Canadians to online services, information and resources for cancer control. It is an ever-evolving portal that brings together resources for cancer prevention, screening, treatment, and supportive, palliative and end-of-life care. Through its collaborative tools, Cancer View Canada also links people in the Canadian cancer community to each other.

www.cancerview.ca

 

Canadian Cancer Action Network (CCAN)

CCAN is one of the projects of CPAC (as described above).  It is a group that describes itself as follows:

We are a volunteer-driven, incorporated organization dedicated to ensuring patient interests remain a key priority on the national cancer agenda.
 
Uniting cancer-site patient organizations from across Canada under one umbrella:

• We work collaboratively with key stakeholders from the cancer community to advance patient interests.
• We bring an informed patient perspective to all key areas of the cancer control continuum. 
• We engage with key decision makers to ensure a national system that optimizes care and treatment outcomes through all phases of cancer control continues to evolve.      

CCAN Members Council is currently comprised of 17 prominent national cancer-site organizations; 5 population organizations; 9 provincial CCAN chairs and 7 Canadian Partnership Against Cancer Action Group representatives.

www.ccanceraction.ca

 

Canadian Psychosocial Oncology Partners (CPOP)

CPOP Online is a virtual community, where people engaged in psychosocial services, education or research for Canadians affected by cancer can share their knowledge and resources.

www.cancerview.ca

 

Cancer Patient Education Network (CPEN)

CPEN is a group of Health Care Professionals who share experiences and best practices in all aspects of cancer patient education. CPEN provides a formal mechanism for the exchange of information among cancer patient educators, thereby improving the management and delivery of patient education services. This exchange of information occurs through networking, mentoring, collaborating, sharing best-practice resources, developing guidelines and standards, and conducting evidence-based research.

www.cancerpatienteducation.org