July 14, 2025
Born and raised in Morden, Man., Tara Horrill [BN/05, PhD/21] always knew she wanted a career in health care. But it was while working as an oncology nurse at CancerCare Manitoba that she became drawn to research.
In that role, she observed that Indigenous cancer patients had a disproportionately poor rate of survival.
“I was there for 10 years, and I saw too many First Nation and Inuit patients diagnosed at very late stages – and with cancers that could have been detected and treated a lot earlier,” she says.
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