Cancer is an unstoppable force.
It is caused by bad genes, bad luck, bad environments and bad food. We are helpless against it and there is nothing we can do to stop it. Wrong, is the emphatic response you will get from health care professionals and anyone working on the Waddell Project, a long term pilot program looking into cancer prevention in the Greater Trail and Castlegar areas. The project has found that people here do believe cancer is completely out of their hands. It found that most of the 114 Trail and Castlegar residents surveyed last spring felt this way, as did the community groups that Community Coordinator, Madeleine Oostindie, visited this spring and summer.