\u00a0Sonal Gupta, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Canada’s National Observer A critical cancer study commissioned by a First Nation remains incomplete because Alberta Health Services hasn’t released health data from 2022 onwards \u2014 data the Mikisew Cree First Nation says is essential to prove a link between industrial contamination and rising cancer rates in the northern Alberta community. At a press conference in Ottawa this week, Chief Billy\u2011Joe Tuccaro announced preliminary findings showing 149 confirmed cancer cases between 1993 and 2022 in the community of roughly 900 people \u2014 and that cancer rates in Fort Chipewyan are at least 25 per cent higher than the rest of Alberta. But the numbers, he said, are likely much higher \u2014 closer to 250 or even 300 by his estimation. That would mean cancer… <\/p>\n
\u00a0Sonal Gupta, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Canada’s National Observer A critical cancer study commissioned by a First Nation remains incomplete because Alberta Health Services hasn’t released health data from 2022 onwards \u2014 data the Mikisew Cree First Nation says is essential to prove a link between industrial contamination and rising cancer rates in the northern Alberta community. At a press conference in Ottawa this week, Chief Billy\u2011Joe Tuccaro announced preliminary findings showing 149 confirmed cancer cases between 1993 and 2022 in the community of roughly 900 people \u2014 and that cancer rates in Fort Chipewyan are at least 25 per cent higher than the rest of Alberta. But the numbers, he said, are likely much higher \u2014 closer to 250 or even 300 by his estimation. That would mean cancer... <\/p>\n