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Janet Cox

Janet Cox

Date de décès : 24 avril 2015

COX
Janet
It is with great sadness that the family of Janet Cox announce her passing on April 24th, 2015, at the Miller Center in St John's. Janet had bravely borne the impact of lung cancer for several months. She leaves her mother, Pat and brother, Jeff in England, and a wide circle of close friends and medical colleagues throughout Newfoundland, Labrador, Nova Scotia and along Quebec's Lower North Shore. Janet was widely loved and respected throughout the region for her tireless service to the medical needs of so many people for over forty years. She first came to work for the International Grenfell Association in St Anthony in 1970, having qualified as a registered nurse and midwife in her native England. Janet first worked as a staff nurse and midwife on the obstetrical unit at the Charles C. Curtis Memorial Hospital in St Anthony and later went on to attain diplomas in Outpost Nursing and Public Health Nursing from Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia. Janet spent many years providing frontline health care to a number of small, isolated coastal settlements along the Lower North Shore of Quebec, first in Harrington Harbour and then for almost twenty years in Kegaska, near Natashquan, where she became an integral part of the community. In the early 1990s, she moved to Goose Bay as assistant director of nursing for the Grenfell Regional Health Services northern nursing stations. But it was her years working closely with families in these isolated communities that Janet came to realize the impact that specific types of cancer was having on certain families. Her relationship with the families, her detective work and her careful research and documentation of their medical histories led Janet to suspect that there was a genetic cause to the high incidence and premature mortality from colon cancer - Hereditary Non-Polyposis Colon Cancer (HNPCC). Janet moved back to St Anthony where, in consultation with Dr. William Fitzgerald, they established life-saving screening programs for those at highest risk. This resulted in the discovery and surgical removal of many cancers at an early, even pre-cancerous, stage. Janet's leadership in moving such studies from the realm of clinical research to practical clinical care has had a beneficial impact on the lives of countless patients and their families. Today, more than a thousand individuals are involved in the screening program. Janet was a modest and caring person who did not seek public recognition. So it was to the delight of so many of her friends and colleagues that in October 2012, Janet was among eight individuals awarded the highest honour that can be bestowed in the province, the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador, for her outstanding services to the community. She retired from full-time work in December 2013. Janet's family and friends wish to thank Dr. Hurley, her medical colleagues and the volunteer staff in the Palliative Care Unit at the Miller Center for their constant and considerate care over the past few weeks. The funeral service will be held at the Carnell Memorial Chapel, 329 Freshwater Road, St John's at 11 am on Tuesday, April 28th, 2015. No flowers please, but donations in lieu can be made to the Canadian Cancer Society. To send a message of condolence or sign the memorial guest book, please visit www.carnells.com.

 

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