Addressing ethical issues to promote equitable cancer care.
Precision medicine is emerging as a source of hope for advanced cancer patients by prolonging disease progression and survival. An additional end-of-life care option is legal access to medical assistance in dying (MAID). Equitable access and safeguarding the vulnerable from harm are among the significant ethical issues raised by these revolutionary advances in cancer care.
Based at the University of Toronto and Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, the JustCan ethics lab uses empirical and normative bioethics, critical and feminist methodologies, qualitative and mixed-methods, and stakeholder engagement to address these and other urgent ethical issues at the frontier of cancer care through research, policy, and practice.
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“While accessibility is 1 of 5 cornerstones of Canada’s public health care system, providing equitable access to health interventions remains a challenge.”
— COUNCIL OF CANADIAN ACADEMIES, 2020