Cancer is among the leading causes of death for homeless adults. Compared with the general population, homeless people experience alarmingly high rates of mortality from cancer. Significant disparities are recognized to exist in cancer risk factors, screening, diagnosis, and treatment for homeless people. What is less evident—perhaps even slightly invisible to the public eye, and even to the eyes of the health care community—is what happens with these vulnerable people who are at the end of their lives.
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The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness is the largest national research institute devoted to homelessness in Canada. The COH is the curator of the Homeless Hub.
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