In close collaboration with the CIUSSS de l’Estrie-CHUS, our Group created in 2021 a Patient-Partner Committee in Breast Cancer Clinical Research to raise awareness of clinical research as a treatment option and optimize the participation rate in studies.
Called les COPINES (COmité de Patientes partenaires en recherche clInique sur le caNcEr du Sein), this committee is a real partnership between patients who have benefited from clinical research and researchers.
The mission of les COPINES : Use their experience of living with breast cancer and their participation in clinical research to facilitate understanding, accessibility and participation in breast cancer clinical research.
To understand why the role of patients with breast cancer is crucial in clinical research, we invite you to watch the video below (available in French only).
It is a warm exchange between Catherine Wilhelmy, a former patient and COPINES collaborator, and her physician-researcher, Dr. Michel Pavic, oncologist and head of department at the CIUSSS de l’Estrie-CHUS, who is also a member of the Group’s scientific committee. You will discover the importance of the involvement of patient-partners who act as a driving force to bring better understanding and adherence to research.
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Would you like to know more about the initiatives of the COPINES committee?
Visit and join the Les COPINES Facebook Group.
Improving the fight against breast cancer by increasing access to and participation in clinical research studies.
In order to make the text more readable, patients is used in the feminine form since breast cancer mainly affects women.
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