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From YouTube: APRIL 18 2023 Statements Aman Singh
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The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
4th Session
42nd Parliament
A
Richmond
Queensborough,
thank
you.
Mr
Speaker,
each
year
the
Canadian
Cancer
society's
daffodil
campaign
for
Cancer
Awareness
Month,
unites
British
Columbians
to
take
action
for
the
nearly
half
of
Canadians
expected
to
be
diagnosed
with
cancer.
In
their
lifetimes
donations
raised
through
the
daffodil
Campaign
Will
fund,
Nationwide
support
programs
that
offer
comfort
and
connection
and
World
leading
research
to
transform
the
future
of
cancer
treatment
and
care,
while
the
entire
month
of
April
is
daffodil
month.
A
April
18th
today
has
been
identified
as
a
day
of
action
when
statements
will
be
read
out
loud
throughout
legislatures
in
the
country
and
will
coincide
with
landmarks
being
lit
up
across
the
country.
I've
spoken
of
this
here
before,
but
I
want
to
again
recognize
the
impact
that
cancer
has
on
our
loved
ones.
We
know
it
has
touched
so
many
in
this
Hall,
including
myself.
This
time
last
year,
I
was
in
my
seventh
month
of
chemotherapy
and
although
I
made
it
to
work
almost
every
day
was
a
smile.
I
can
confess
it
wasn't
easy.
A
It's
likely
the
second
hardest
thing
that
I've
done:
overcoming
alcoholism
being
likely
the
hardest
and
they
aren't
unrelated
alcohol
is
a
known
carcinogen
and
I
cannot
say
that
it
didn't
contribute
to
my
cancer.
My
good
friend,
Dr,
Eric
Yoshida,
our
province
is
likely
most
prominent.
Gastroenterologist
would
say
it
likely
did,
but
that's
a
story
for
another
day:
cancer.
Dear
colleagues,
Remains
the
leading
cause
of
death
in
Canada,
an
estimated
two
in
five
Canadians
more
than
two
and
five
Canadians
will
be
diagnosed
with
cancer
in
their
lifetime
and
about
one
in
four
will
die
from
cancer.
A
Lung
breast,
colorectal
and
prostate
cancers
are
expected
to
remain
the
most
common
diagnosed
cancers.
They
have
been
for
the
for
the
last
as
well,
and
accounting
for
almost
half
of
cancer
diagnoses,
so
skin
melanoma
cancer
continues
to
increase,
despite
being
a
highly
preventable
cancer,
wear
sunscreen,
my
friends,
it's
even
more
deadly
for
people
with
darker
skin,
as
it
tends
to
be
diagnosed
at
a
later
stage.
So
if
you're
Brown,
like
me,
don't
think
you're
immune
to
skin
cancer.
There
is
good
news,
though.
Death
rates
have
been
in
general
declining
over
the
last
few
years.
A
Current
five-year
rate
net
cancers-
viral
rates
is
estimated
to
be
at
64
for
all
cancers
combined.
Thank
you.
It
wasn't
always
so
those
statistics
are
also
a
lot
better
than
they
have
been
in
the
past
and
that's
a
testament
to
the
significance
of
continued
research
and
detection
and
treatment
and
how
awareness
programs
like
the
daffodil
month
have
helped
improve
those
statistics.
Thank
you,
member.
Thank
you.