On March 2, 2006 Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced the federal government’s commitment to fund and implement the Canadian Strategy for Cancer Control. If fully implemented, the Strategy will mean, over the next 30 years: · preventing over 1.2 million Canadians from developing cancer; · saving the lives of more than 420,000 Canadians; · saving more than $39 billion in direct healthcare costs; · preventing the loss of more than $101 billion in wage-based productivity.

full story at the Canadian Cancer Society web site