Trevor W. Payne Fund for  Men's Cancers

Press Coverage After The Event

CTV NEWS
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McGill Reporter
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The Cedars Cancer Institute is pleased to announce that celebrated Montreal musician Trevor W. Payne, C.M. will spearhead a new men's cancer fund in support of the Cedars Best Care for Life Campaign of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC).

“Prostate cancer kills more men every year than any other form of cancer. It will afflict one in eight men in their lifetimes, striking approximately 22,300 men this year alone. I am ever so thankful to the MUHC, Dr. Armen Aprikian and his team and to Cedars CanSupport for getting me through the difficult diagnosis of prostate cancer. I am giving back in gratefulness and partnering with Cedars to make sure other men get the care they need too."
Trevor W. Payne, C.M.

Cedars’ Trevor W. Payne Fund for Men's Cancer has been created as a means for Payne to give back to the medical team and MUHC where he was successfully treated for prostate cancer in 2009. As spokesperson for the newly-conceived initiative, Payne will help Cedars create awareness in the community of the risk factors, signs, symptoms and treatment of prostate cancer with a focus on the benefits of early detection as well as the psychosocial aspects of coping with the disease. Another goal of hte initiative is to speak out abour men's cancers in general and make wute men get the care they need - whatever form of cancer they have.

Cedars Director General, Jeff Shamie proudly reports “In the past two years, The Cedars Cancer Institute has secured the acquisition of a most important cutting-edge medical tool in prostate cancers for the MUHC – the da Vinci surgical robot – a $2.9 million gift to the hospital’s Cancer Care Mission.”

“We are ecstatic” Shamie continued “that Trevor, through his compassion for cancer patients and his notoriety will help Cedars champion the cause of men with cancer and promote awareness among men of all ages.”

The Trevor W. Payne Fund for Men's Cancers is part of  “Change Montreal” the broad community-bases fundraising drive to support the Best Care for Life campaign of the McGill Univertisy Health Centre, based at the website ChangeMontreal.ca www.changemontreal.ca/fundraisers

To make a donation to the Trevor W. Payne Men's Cancer Awareness Fund, please click here.