BC Cancer Foundation News
1,110 participants begin day two of $2.4 million, 60-km weekend walk
August 15, 2010, Vancouver - The BC Cancer Foundation announced yesterday that 1,100 participants raised over $2.4 million in its seventh annual Shoppers Drug Mart® Weekend to End Women’s Cancers™, the Foundation’s signature, 60-km walk to support cancer research at the BC Cancer Agency.
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Personalized genome sequencing in cancer treatment—a major breakthrough in care
August 9, 2010, Vancouver - Researchers at the BC Cancer Agency Genome Sciences Centre have provided the first published example of genome-scale RNA and DNA sequencing of a tumour to aid in clinical decision making and therapeutic choice.
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Over 925 participants dress down to raise $552,200 in 10K Run/5K Walk BC Cancer Foundation’s Underwear Affair® sheds light on cancers “down there”
July 10, 2010, Vancouver - Tonight over 925 British Columbians dressed in underwear and other brief costumes walked and ran in the streets of Vancouver to raise funds and awareness for cancers below the waist.
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BC scientists develop new drug candidate for prostate cancer
June 15, 2010 - Scientists in B.C. have developed a unique experimental drug, EPI-001, that shrinks prostate cancer tumours in the lab. The breakthrough came from the research groups of Dr. Marianne Sadar, Senior Scientist, BC Cancer Agency and Dr. Raymond Andersen, Professor, University of British Columbia.
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BMO Financial Group helps patients and families affected by cancer on Vancouver Island
June 14, 2010 - BMO Financial Group announces a donation of $125,000 to the BC Cancer Foundation’s Inspire the World campaign. This gift will help support the creation of the BMO Relaxation and Exercise Studio in the newly renovated area of the BC Cancer Agency’s Vancouver Island Centre. This space will provide a customized area for special exercise classes, which will benefit patients with various types of cancer. For example there will be upper body strength classes for breast cancer patients.
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Twenty finalists move on in model search benefiting the BC Cancer Foundation
May 27, 2010, Vancouver, B.C. - Twenty model finalists of the 6th annual River Rock Resort ITM-NSR Model Look North America 2010 were announced today.
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BC Cancer Foundation receives $1 million gift from Roche Canada to expand BC Cancer Agency's research capacity across B.C.
May 18, 2010, Vancouver, B.C. - The BC Cancer Foundation today announced a $1 million gift from leading pharmaceutical manufacturer, Roche Canada (Hoffmann-La Roche) that will enable the BC Cancer Agency to significantly enhance and expand its research activity in two key areas over the next five years.
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Bob Mehr Compounding Pharmacies donates $50,000 to Inspire the World
May 11, 2010, Victoria, B.C. - Customers, staff and guests were on hand at Cook Street Village’s Pharmasave today to celebrate a $50,000 gift to the BC Cancer Foundation’s Inspire the World campaign from Bob Mehr Compounding Pharmacies.
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Big cancer message delivered in giant underwear
April 15, 2010, Vancouver, B.C. - Lunchtime crowds were treated to a brief spectacle today as teams of runners dressed in little more than oversized underwear raced around the Vancouver Art Gallery building to kick off the BC Cancer Foundation’s 2010 Underwear Affair® presented by Mark’s Work Wearhouse.
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Vancouver’s “Top Model” contest embraces fashion and philanthropy
March 10, 2010, Vancouver, B.C. - Young fashion models in elegant gowns, escorted by prominent cancer researchers in crisp white lab coats, walked an improvised runway at the BC Cancer Agency Research Centre as ITM and CHMB AM1320 announced their continuing partnership with the BC Cancer Foundation at the launch of the 6th annual River Rock Resort ITM-NSR Model Look North America 2010 today.
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BC Cancer Agency researchers find presence of macrophages (scavenger cells) can predict treatment outcome in Hodgkin lymphoma
March 10, 2010, Vancouver, B.C. - New research published today in the New England Journal of Medicine sheds new light on which Hodgkin lymphoma patients are likely to relapse after receiving treatment.
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Scientists generate promising new model for predicting how individual lung tumours will respond to different drugs
February 23, 2010 - Vancouver, B.C. - Scientists at the BC Cancer Agency and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute have generated a promising new method that may one day aid oncologists in the faster identification of which chemotherapy regimens may be useful for treating a particular patient’s non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and which are unlikely to be effective.
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Norgaard Foundation's $250,000 donation to Inspire the World lifts capital campaign over $5 million threshold
February 2, 2010 - Victoria, B.C. - The Norgaard Foundation, a private family foundation based in Sidney, B.C. today announced a donation of $250,000 to the BC Cancer Foundation's Inspire the World capital campaign. The gift helped kick off the campaign's 2010 fundraising year and carried it past the $5 million threshold, halfway to its $10 million goal.
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BC Cancer Agency unlocks clues to Lymphoma
January 18, 2010 - Vancouver, B.C. - BC Cancer Agency researchers have identified a never before seen mutation (or DNA spelling mistake), in the two most common types of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. No other types of lymphoma or other cancers have been found to contain this particular mutation.
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