Sandra Dudych

Fellow

Sandra Dudych lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is a 14 year Carcinosarcoma of the breast cancer survivor.

She retired from a 30 year career in communications, marketing, and professional fundraising.

After encountering several life-threatening treatment complications with cancer surgery and chemotherapy, Sandra vowed that if she lived, she would use her lived experience to the "patients’ voice” to improve cancer care in Canada.

She has been a Patient Advisor with CancerCare Manitoba since 2011. Since 2014, she has advised the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer on various committees and initiatives.
She has chaired a Patient Advisory Group for CancerCare Manitoba and was a Peer Supporter with CancerCare Manitoba"s Breast and Gyne Cancer Centre of Hope.

Sandra is a recipient of CancerCare Manitoba’s Award of Distinction for her volunteer work to improve the lives of cancer patients in Manitoba.
Sandra is a Canadian Cancer Society Patient Reviewer for the Emerging Scholars Research Grants program. She is a Patient Advisor in the Patient Involvement in Cancer Research Program with with the Canadian Cancer Research Alliance.

Recently, Sandra joined the Canadian Cancer Society’s Cancer Prevention Research Network (CPRN) Advisory Committee and is a 2025 Patient Scholar in the BioCanRx-CSA Learning Institute. She is a Patient Surveyor with Accreditation Canada