While her cancer diagnosis and treatment process were “ideal,” cancer patients’ experiences differ vastly across the province. The network—led by the Terry Fox Research Institute and the Terry Fox Foundation—brings together cancer researchers, doctors, patients, and survivors nationwide to improve cancer diagnoses, predict how different patients will respond to treatments and deliver more personalized cancer treatments. Its Gold Cohort database contains clinical and genomic data on over 15,000 cancer patients across Canada. She says individual provinces and cancer research centres don’t have enough information to tackle every rare case efficiently. Coombs says she hopes cancer patients and their caregivers realize they can make a difference in cancer care.