Our Collaborations
Biomarking/molecular profiling – Get Personal Campaign and the Beat Cancer Coalition
Biosimilars – CCC collaboration with the Education Committee of the pan Canadian Oncology Biosimilars Initiative with Cancer Care Ontario (pCOBI) and with the Quebec Ministry of Health on Biosimilars
Drug reimbursement – CCC regularly provides input to CADTH (pCODR) and INESSS providing the patient perspective to expert committees’ evaluating new cancer treatments for reimbursement
Health policy in prevention – CCC was a founding member of and sits on the Canadian Partnership against Cancer’s (CPAC) National Colorectal Cancer Screening Network (NCCSN)
Access to data – IQVIA panels and providing input on BIG Data and other issues to improve the health of Canadians
Quebec Government Panels (PQC) – CCC works with the Comité national des milieux communautaires en cancérologie to provide insights to the Quebec government Programme Québécois Cancérologie
Transforming Healthcare in Canada Providing insight on a Board level to the Canadian Personalized Healthcare Innovation Network (CPHIN) that visions a healthcare system enabled by data and innovation to improve health outcomes for Canadians
Participant in Canada Health 2030 Visioning the future of health care in Canada.
Clinical Trials Networks – Provides insight on the Board of Directors of clinical trial networks such as Exactis Innovation
Consortium de recherche en oncologie clinique du Québec (Q-CROC) and brings the patient perspective to Quebec Clinical Trials and helped to create the Quebec CRC Community of Practice in Clinical Trials
Participates as a Patient advisor to the Terry Fox Marathon of Hope
Patient Stakeholder Group with BioCanRX
Cancer Research Projects – Provides the patient perspective as collaborators and often as investigators in many Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) funded cancer research projects
Health Technology Assessment – Provides insights on patient preferences and other patient perspectives to international health technology assessment bodies such as the International Society for Pharmacoeconomic and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) and Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi) as part of its Patient and Citizen Involvement Group (PCIG)
Coalitions – CCC takes a leading role in various cancer group coalitions such as the Coalition Priorité cancer au Québec in Quebec and CONECTed across Canada and internationally in the Global Action for Cancer Patients (GACP) and the Global Colon Cancer Association (GCCA) as well as the US based GI Alliance as well as partnering with individual colorectal/bowel cancer associations internationally.
Industry Panels – Provides patient group insights on Health Policy in Canada to Innovative Medicines Canada and other Industry Panels both in Canada and Globally.
Resiliency in Healthcare Systems – Member of the Steering Committee of the Resilient HealthCare Coalition.
Value Based HealthCare – Member of the Advisory Committee Meeting for VBHC Canada Colorectal Cancer Demonstration Project Initiative in Colorectal Cancer.
Member of the Canadian Health Research Forum (CHRF) to advance cancer research in Canada.
Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Patient advisor to the International Grand Challenge CRC Research on the Microbiome (OPTIMISTICC)