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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hi all:</span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Here I go stirring the pot again….<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Feel free to share this thru your network & send to your MPP <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thx.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Glen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br><b>Subject:</b> LETTER TO THE EDITOR<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please consider the following for publishing as a Letter to the Editor.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Missing Deadly Statistics<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>As part of the front page article ”<i>Opioids claim more lives than road crashes” </i> (G & M 28 Mar 18)there is a listing of “Deadly Statistics” showing 2018 deaths from Opioid overdoses projected to be 4000, with actuals from 2015 for Parkinson’s 2543, Motor Vehicle Accidents 2066, Homicide 611, & HIV 190. While they are significant, even the 2018 numbers for opioids are less than the 4100 Canadian deaths from Prostate Cancer for 2015. In spite of the numbers of men who die from Prostate Cancer (PCa) the Ontario government does not cover PSA testing to screen for PCa until after a man is diagnosed with PCa or is a first line relative (son, brother etc)of a man previously diagnosed with PCa. Furthermore, OHIP does not fully cover the cost of modern day Robotic Assisted Prostate Surgery leaving the hospital where the surgery is performed with a $3200 unfunded cost per procedure. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>These inequalities exist even while the Ontario government allocates more than $200 million to the opioid crisis.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Glen N. Tolhurst - Chair Prostate Cancer Canada Network Waterloo-Wellington<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>18 Hunters Lane<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Guelph ON N1C 1B1<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>519 826 0716<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>BTW- Editor – please see attachment for a source document for the PCa stats.<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>