Thank you to Dr. Julian Lum for sharing your experience at the BC Cancer Agency Vancouver Island Centre with us. Your immunology research is interesting, and your passion and dedication to your work is inspiring. Your post about cancer’s “sweet tooth” was an eye opener as well.
For February, we...
It’s with a heavy heart that I must raise your attention today to the passing of a great friend to the BC Cancer Foundation and a model Vancouver citizen. On New Year’s Eve, Vancouver business leader Milton K. Wong succumbed to pancreatic cancer. Mr. Wong was enthusiastic about adding to the vibrancy of Vancouver and a powerful ambassador of the importance of philanthropy and research. As co-...
Thank you Dr. Aly Karsan for guest blogging with us last month about the Personalized Medicine Project (PMP) – it is an excellent example of the leading-edge research taking place at the BC Cancer Agency.
I am now pleased to introduce our final guest blogger for 2011: Dr. Brian Toyota. Dr. Toyota is the Provincial Chair of Neuro-Oncology at the BC Cancer Agency and he is going to...
This is a brief interruption to Dr. Aly Karsan’s blogging to share an interesting fundraising opportunity that is happening right now online—it’s a virtual race!
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I’m really excited about what’s to come with Dr. Aly Karsan’s posts, but I had to take this chance to talk about some timely stories that came out this week.
According to new StatsCan data, cancer is now the leading cause of death in every province. It is clear that as a...
Around the office at the BC Cancer Foundation we are still thrilled with the success of last week’s Inspiration Gala event. To those of you who attended or volunteered – thank you again for your support – we could not have raised over $1.5 million without you!
Last week concluded Dr. Karen Gelmon’s guest blog posts...
Last night, our seventh Inspiration Gala proved to be an amazing evening. Thanks to the 400 guests who attended the Moroccan- and Indian-inspired event, we raised over $1.5 million to support the Personalized Medicine Project at the BC Cancer Agency – it was truly inspiring.
I would like to extend a big thank you and congratulations to our Inspiration Gala...
It’s that time of year again, where holidays are wrapping up and back to school is in the air. We certainly had a busy summer of events here at the Foundation and we are looking forward to what’s to come this fall.
In the meantime, we have an interesting blog topic for you this month, shared by our next guest blogger Dr. John Spinelli, who will tell us about the BC Generations Project...
Just a small interruption of Dr. David Huntsman’s blogging to share some news from this past weekend...
A total of 800 participants raised over $2 million for research into women’s cancers at the Shoppers Drug Mart® Weekend to End Women’s Cancers™!
On behalf of the BC Cancer Foundation, thank you to all the participants and supporters who made it an inspiring...
