A phenomenal tribute to socialized Canadian health care that will leave repukes sputtering.
What greater seal of approval (in terms of how repukes view the world) could there be then for one of Canada's wealthiest women (net worth 1.97 billion) choosing to receive cancer treatment within Canada's public health care system?
Here is someone who had the option of being treated at any of the most exclusive and expensive private hospitals anywhere in the world but she stayed in Canada and opted for public healthcare. And guess what? She is cancer free.
Wanting to help others she and her husband donated a whopping 50 MILLION dollars to Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto to support efforts to use genetic information to diagnose disease and deliver customized treatments....Within five years, physicians at Princess Margaret Hospital will study all patients’ cancer cells and provide complete molecular descriptions of their tumours.
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Now, Ms. Gattuso, 65, is cancer-free and determined to help push the frontiers of medicine to help others.
Ms. Gattuso and her husband, broadcast mogul Allan Slaight, are donating $50-million to Princess Margaret, in what is being billed as the largest private gift for cancer research in Canadian history.
The money, which was announced on Monday, will support efforts to deliver personalized medicine, a burgeoning field in which doctors use patients’ genetic information to diagnose disease and deliver customized treatments.
“Today, the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre takes a significant step towards conquering cancer in our lifetime,” said Paul Alofs, president and CEO of the Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/philanthropist-gives-princess-margaret-hospital-50-million-to-fight-cancer/article7575259/
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