The role of the patient in health care management has evolved in recent years and the involvement of patients has become an essential part of the care trajectory, as well as that of patient partners in the development of research questions. Few stakeholders are as credible as the patients themselves! The patient partnership in research thus makes it possible to create the best possible match between the researchers’ ideas and the patients’ needs.
On January 26, we announced, in partnership with the Centre de recherche du CHUS (CRCHUS), the creation of a first Patient-Partner Committee aimed at raising awareness of clinical research in breast cancer.
Today, on the eve of World Cancer Day, we present you a short 6-minute video entitled “When researchers and patients meet” (available in French only). An inspiring conversation between Mrs. Catherine Wilhelmy, head of Patient Partnership at the CRCHUS and Dr. Michel Pavic, Hematologist-oncologist at the CIUSSS de l’Estrie-CHUS, Director of medical research in oncology of Institut de Recherche sur le cancer de l’Université de Sherbrooke (IRCUS) and a member of our Group’s Executive Scientific Committee.
Through this warm exchange between a former patient and her physician-researcher, you will discover the importance of the involvement of patient partners who act as a driving force to bring about better understanding and better adherence to research. As Catherine Wilhelmy points out in the video, it is particularly motivating and rewarding!
Dr. Pavic reminds us that participating in clinical research allows us to improve the treatments of those who will have to go through this ordeal in the coming years, but also to put in place with the patient a set of treatments and strategies to align the objectives of research and those of the patient, for the benefit of the latter.
We would like to sincerely thank Mrs. Wilhelmy and Dr. Pavic, the COPINES (COmité de Patientes partenaires en recherche clInique sur le caNcEr du Sein) from the Eastern Townships for their participation, as well as Mrs. Nathalie Plaat and Mrs. Annick Sauvé for producing this moving video that we invite you to share with anyone you know is touched by cancer.
Click below to watch the video “When researchers and patients meet” in French.