Champions
of Underfunded Cancers
Tribute Training is focused on being the enabler of equity in the cancer ecosystem—with our platform helping to close the gap between where cancer burden exists and where funding currently flows.
Tribute Training focuses on filling the massive funding gap of underfunded cancers, positioning Tribute Training as champions for:
Childhood cancers receive only 7% of all cancer-specific funding.
Childhood cancers are biologically different from adult cancers. Leukemias, central nervous system tumours, and lymphomas represent the most common pediatric cancers in Canada.
Adolescents and young adults (AYA) Cancers are an under-serviced cancer category that create disproportionate social, emotional, healthcare, and economic impacts because they affect patients during critical developmental years.
Adolescents and young adults (AYA) experience a unique cancer burden because their cancers often occur during major educational, career, psychological, and social transitions.
- Four cancers — pancreatic, stomach, lung, and colorectal — collectively represent 46% of all potential years of life lost to cancer in Canada, yet receive only 15% of cancer-specific research funding and 1.6% of cancer-specific charity funding.
- Head and Neck cancers is the 6th most common cancer in males, with roughly 1,600-1,650 men and 620-640 women expected to die from this disease annually.
Not everyone wins their heroic battle with cancer. Palliative care is an underfunded need to provide empathy and dignity at end of life.
- 60% of Canadians die in hospital, although only 10% require hospitalization at end of life
- Lack of compassion and dignity without Hospice Care is traumatizing to patient, family and friends.
- Hospice care costs approximately $10,000 per patient, compared to $40,000 for hospital-based end-of-life care.
Childhood cancers receive only 7% of all cancer-specific funding.
Childhood cancers are biologically different from adult cancers. Leukemias, central nervous system tumours, and lymphomas represent the most common pediatric cancers in Canada.
Adolescents and young adults (AYA) Cancers are an under-serviced cancer category that create disproportionate social, emotional, healthcare, and economic impacts because they affect patients during critical developmental years.
Adolescents and young adults (AYA) experience a unique cancer burden because their cancers often occur during major educational, career, psychological, and social transitions.
- Four cancers — pancreatic, stomach, lung, and colorectal — collectively represent 46% of all potential years of life lost to cancer in Canada, yet receive only 15% of cancer-specific research funding and 1.6% of cancer-specific charity funding.
- Head and Neck cancers is the 6th most common cancer in males, with roughly 1,600-1,650 men and 620-640 women expected to die from this disease annually.
Not everyone wins their heroic battle with cancer. Palliative care is an underfunded need to provide empathy and dignity at end of life.
- 60% of Canadians die in hospital, although only 10% require hospitalization at end of life
- Lack of compassion and dignity without Hospice Care is traumatizing to patient, family and friends.
- Hospice care costs approximately $10,000 per patient, compared to $40,000 for hospital-based end-of-life care.