Equity isn’t optional – it is essential to solving Canada’s cancer problem – Healthy Debate

Jun 10, 2025

Equity seems to have become a contentious word. We’ve all heard the anti-DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) sentiment from the United States and, while such antipathy played much less of a role in our own recent federal election, it is not entirely absent in Canada.

Anti-DEI sentiment alarms me. As someone who has worked in cancer care at a systems level and directly as an oncologist for more than 30 years, I want to be clear: equity must be a core and non-negotiable component of health and cancer care.

Without addressing inequity, we will never be able to solve the cancer problem in Canada.

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