Helping build compassionate care
In regions of South and Southeast Asia, 80% of young people diagnosed with cancer and other serious illnesses die. In countries such as Canada, approximately 80% of young people with a similar diagnosis will survive. The reality is there are ‘Two Worlds’ of healthcare. Our goal is to narrow this gap.
Our programs directly impact the lives of those living with serious and life-threatening illnesses – helping ease their pain and suffering.
Two Worlds Cancer Collaboration—Helping build compassionate care
Cancer is one of the leading causes of premature death in 134 countries worldwide
Our partnerships and programs help build capacity to support prevention, diagnosis, cure, and palliative and end-of-life care. With strong roots in supporting palliative care in South and Southeast Asia, Two Worlds Cancer understands that ‘Closing the Circle’ on disease means enabling prevention and striving for a cure for everyone facing a diagnosis.
Our collaborative approach
is driven by local healthcare providers
2.7 Million people live with cancer in India sadly an estimated 500,000 die every year
Our team of volunteer healthcare professionals work with care professionals in lesser-resourced countries to help reduce the disparity and burden of cancer and other life-limiting illness
Two Worlds Cancer Collaboration is harnessing Canadian and International healthcare knowledge and leadership to assist healthcare providers in lesser-resourced countries in palliative care, end-of-life care and cancer control strategies. Together we are collaborating to overcome barriers such as lack of training, diagnostic services and treatment infrastructure.
What we do is transformative, scalable, and sustainable
The future of our programs relies
on generous donors like you
Globally, the need for palliative care is greater today than it was 10 years ago – less than 4% of those who need palliative care have access to it.
Two Worlds Cancer Collaboration is on a mission to bridge that gap. With compassion. With collaboration. With partnership.
Only 14 percent of the world’s population
has access to palliative care
Our fellowships train doctors to become leaders
In collaboration with our partners, Two Worlds Cancer offers specialized fellowships. These programs are designed to train doctors to become leaders in palliative medicine and to become community champions for palliative care. The fellowships provide training in the foundations of palliative medicine — medical sciences, research activities, as well as leadership, advocacy and teaching.
At Two Worlds Cancer Collaboration,
we support the need to act now to dramatically curb climate change, to protect global biodiversity, and to work collaboratively to ensure positive change
Every year 5.7 million children die with serious health-related suffering
Human health connections to the climate crisis
Human health and well-being are intimately balanced with the health of the environment. The climate crisis is impacting many across the globe today with unprecedented heatwaves, forest fires, flooding, rising sea levels and pandemics.
We know that climate change, air pollution, exposure to hazardous chemicals and loss of biodiversity are affecting people’s health – related incidences of cancer and other serious illnesses are rising.
With the inequity in healthcare, it is disadvantaged and vulnerable populations that see the full force of this change.