Kingston’s award winning Town Crier, Chris Whyman announces the @CityofKingston Mayoral Proclamation for #ColorectalCancerAwareness month 💙
No unhoused or person with Severe Mental Illness #SMI should ever be left behind!
March is #ColorectalCancer Awareness Month 💙
📍2nd leading cause of cancer death in men & 3rd in women
📍4th most diagnosed cancer in 🇨🇦
“…the unhoused or those living with severe mental illness are less likely to screen, get diagnosed later & have worse outcomes” - #YGK 💙
March is #ColorectalCancer Awareness Month 💙
📍2nd leading cause of cancer death in men & 3rd in women
📍4th most diagnosed cancer in 🇨🇦
“…the unhoused or those living with severe mental illness are less likely to screen, get diagnosed later & have worse outcomes” - #YGK 💙
People with #psychosis face huge challenges in #cancer care.
Listen to “Ronnie’s Story” - #colorectal#bowel
⬇️healthy lifestyle
⬇️cancer literacy
⬇️screening
⬇️engagement
⬇️life expectancy
⬇️equity in care
⬆️stigma
⬆️mortality
#CaSMIP - Don’t Leave Me Behind! ❤️🩹
“Don’t Leave Me Behind” ~ #Ronnie
With cancer care, our community members with mental illness deserve equity immediately (#DEI)❤️🩹 #WorldCancerDay
🎬 https://t.co/d0ZEs68Jdb
On #WorldCancerDay please consider the story of Ronnie and how his psychosis and precarious housing delayed cancer diagnosis. Dr. Oyedeji Ayonrinde (@braindrum) talks about what we can all do to reduce preventable deaths.
https://t.co/2nOVRJpPL2
Navigating Cancer & Psychosis: Don’t Leave Me Behind!
We need to improve cancer care for our community living with Severe Mental Illness ❤️🩹
Mortality rate = 2-2.5 x general population.
@cancersociety@coloncanada@ccalliance@ccranorg
People with #psychosis face huge challenges in #cancer care.
Listen to “Ronnie’s Story” - #colorectal#bowel
⬇️healthy lifestyle
⬇️cancer literacy
⬇️screening
⬇️engagement
⬇️life expectancy
⬇️equity in care
⬆️stigma
⬆️mortality
#CaSMIP - Don’t Leave Me Behind! ❤️🩹
Dr. Ayonrinde sheds light on a critical gap in cancer care: the challenges faced by individuals living with severe mental illness. Watch his 5 à 7 Research Talk "Don't Leave Me Behind: Navigating Cancer and Psychosis" ➡️ https://t.co/XBeWtVxGNV
“Current scientific evidence suggests there are some accuracy differences in pulse #oximeter performance between individuals with lighter and darker skin pigmentation” - @US_FDA 🚨🖕🏾vs. 🖕🏻
Every health professional (& patient) needs to know this! 🫁🫀🩸
Today, we published new draft guidance aimed at helping improve the accuracy and performance of pulse oximeters – important devices for patient care that are used to estimate the amount of oxygen carried in the blood – across the range of skin pigmentation. https://t.co/Sg7itwQxr7
Pulse oximeters overestimate arterial oxygen saturation and provide more variable readings in people with darker skin pigmentations.
Despite guidance from the @US_FDA, the reporting of participant skin tones in pulse oximeter testing has been inconsistent.
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#WorldSuicidePreventionDay
“Changing the Narrative on Suicide”
📍@WHO https://t.co/LH6rxqSPha
📍> 720k people die by suicide yrly
📍3rd lead cause of death in 15–29 yr. olds
📍73% 🌎 suicides occur in #LMIC
You are not alone…talk to someone today…there is hope!
📞🇨🇦🇺🇸-988