Emily Heer
@emilyheer.bsky.social
Cancer epidemiology, misinformation, and health literacy.
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Read the full report at cancer.ca/statistics or explore the data at cancerstats.ca.
#CancerInCanada #CancerStats #CervicalCancerEliminationDayOfAction
#CancerInCanada #CancerStats #CervicalCancerEliminationDayOfAction
Canadian Cancer Statistics
Canadian Cancer Statistics provides the estimated new cancer cases and deaths, probability of developing and dying of cancer, as well as survival numbers in Canada.
cancer.ca
November 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Read the full report at cancer.ca/statistics or explore the data at cancerstats.ca.
#CancerInCanada #CancerStats #CervicalCancerEliminationDayOfAction
#CancerInCanada #CancerStats #CervicalCancerEliminationDayOfAction
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Earlier this month, CAREX team members @cherylepeters.bsky.social and @emilyheer.bsky.social joined @marcozenone.bsky.social to share their work on cancer misinformation at the Café Scientifique event co-hosted by UBC's Cancer Prevention Research Cluster and @cancersociety.bsky.social.
April 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Earlier this month, CAREX team members @cherylepeters.bsky.social and @emilyheer.bsky.social joined @marcozenone.bsky.social to share their work on cancer misinformation at the Café Scientifique event co-hosted by UBC's Cancer Prevention Research Cluster and @cancersociety.bsky.social.
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Join CAREX team members @cherylepeters.bsky.social and @emilyheer.bsky.social, along with
@marcozenone.bsky.social to discuss how cancer #misinformation impacts prevention, diagnosis, and treatment at the Café Scientifique event on April 10th. Register here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/cafe-scien...
@marcozenone.bsky.social to discuss how cancer #misinformation impacts prevention, diagnosis, and treatment at the Café Scientifique event on April 10th. Register here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/cafe-scien...
March 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Join CAREX team members @cherylepeters.bsky.social and @emilyheer.bsky.social, along with
@marcozenone.bsky.social to discuss how cancer #misinformation impacts prevention, diagnosis, and treatment at the Café Scientifique event on April 10th. Register here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/cafe-scien...
@marcozenone.bsky.social to discuss how cancer #misinformation impacts prevention, diagnosis, and treatment at the Café Scientifique event on April 10th. Register here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/cafe-scien...
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Curious about the cancer and vitamin D connection? Some findings have been promising but it’s not a clear cut conclusion.
See our site for a deeper dive. 👇 scienceupfirst.com/science-101/...
#ScienceUpFirst
See our site for a deeper dive. 👇 scienceupfirst.com/science-101/...
#ScienceUpFirst
March 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Curious about the cancer and vitamin D connection? Some findings have been promising but it’s not a clear cut conclusion.
See our site for a deeper dive. 👇 scienceupfirst.com/science-101/...
#ScienceUpFirst
See our site for a deeper dive. 👇 scienceupfirst.com/science-101/...
#ScienceUpFirst
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Established in 1970, Glad Day is the world’s oldest 2SLGBTQ bookstore. It has been at the heart of Canadian struggles for sexual liberation, free speech and creativity.
Glad Day is in crisis & needs to raise $100,000 by the end of June in order to continue. Please donate, please share.
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Glad Day is in crisis & needs to raise $100,000 by the end of June in order to continue. Please donate, please share.
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May 27, 2024 at 4:24 PM
Established in 1970, Glad Day is the world’s oldest 2SLGBTQ bookstore. It has been at the heart of Canadian struggles for sexual liberation, free speech and creativity.
Glad Day is in crisis & needs to raise $100,000 by the end of June in order to continue. Please donate, please share.
More info:
Glad Day is in crisis & needs to raise $100,000 by the end of June in order to continue. Please donate, please share.
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Stumbled on this Scott Burris paper from *checks notes* 1997: "To accept the rhetorical structure of market individualism is to accept a political language that has no words for public health."
He must be so frustrated to have been so correct 27 years ago.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...
He must be so frustrated to have been so correct 27 years ago.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...
The invisibility of public health: population-level measures in a politics of market individualism.
This paper models the prevailing political attack on government as a heuristic, a judgmental strategy that simplifies complex phenomena by applying simple tests to a limited set of relevant data. The ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
March 8, 2024 at 6:54 PM
Stumbled on this Scott Burris paper from *checks notes* 1997: "To accept the rhetorical structure of market individualism is to accept a political language that has no words for public health."
He must be so frustrated to have been so correct 27 years ago.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...
He must be so frustrated to have been so correct 27 years ago.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...