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{
    "time": "2013-11-25 14:00:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Ms. Yvonne Jones (Labrador, Lib.)",
        "fr": "Mme Yvonne Jones (Labrador, Lib.)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3479431\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ask the government to support the growing number of Canadians who are requesting new benchmarks in mammography screening. Breast cancer remains the most common cancer diagnosis of women over 20 in Canada. The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation reported that early detection of breast cancer through mammography screening has helped decrease the number of deaths since 1986.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3479432\" data-originallang=\"en\">Dr. Martin Yaffe at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto recommends that the screening age in Canada should be moved from age 50 to 40. Several provinces have heeded those findings and have committed to taking this proactive step.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3479433\" data-originallang=\"en\">Today, I encourage the federal government to work with all of the provinces, territories, and stakeholders to ensure the age recommendations for breast cancer screening in all jurisdictions are based on the best possible evidence. Early detection means early treatment and lives saved.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3479431\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je prends la parole aujourd'hui pour demander au gouvernement d'appuyer les citoyens de plus en plus nombreux qui demandent de nouvelles balises pour les mammographies. Le cancer du sein demeure la forme de cancer la plus couramment diagnostiqu\u00e9e chez les Canadiennes de plus de 20 ans. La Fondation canadienne du cancer du sein signale que, depuis 1986, la d\u00e9tection pr\u00e9coce gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 la mammographie a contribu\u00e9 \u00e0 la r\u00e9duction des d\u00e9c\u00e8s. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3479432\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le D<sup>r</sup> Martin Yaffe, du centre des sciences de la sant\u00e9 Sunnybrook de Toronto, recommande d'abaisser de 50 \u00e0 40 ans l'\u00e2ge o\u00f9 commence le d\u00e9pistage organis\u00e9. Dans la foul\u00e9e de cette recommandation, plusieurs provinces se sont engag\u00e9es \u00e0 adopter cette mesure pr\u00e9ventive. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3479433\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'invite aujourd'hui le gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral \u00e0 collaborer avec les provinces, les territoires et les intervenants pour que, partout, l'\u00e2ge o\u00f9 doit commencer le d\u00e9pistage organis\u00e9 du cancer du sein repose sur les meilleures donn\u00e9es possibles. D\u00e9tection pr\u00e9coce rime avec traitement pr\u00e9coce et vie sauve. </p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2013/11/25/yvonne-jones-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/yvonne-jones/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4156/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "8150852",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Statements By Members",
        "fr": "D\u00e9clarations De D\u00e9put\u00e9s"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Breast Cancer Screening",
        "fr": "Le d\u00e9pistage du cancer du sein"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2013/11/25/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2013%2F11%2F25%2F"
    }
}