Jingle Mingle Raises $650,000 for Innovative Therapies on Vancouver Island By pauline.jeannea... on Dec 02, 2019 Guests at Jingle Mingle 2019 On November 28, $650,000 was raised at the annual Jingle Mingle event in Victoria. Fueled by the generosity of 325 generous guests, along with several... Continue Reading BC Cancer - Victoria, BC Cancer Research Centre, Jingle Mingle
Paving a new path for BC Cancer By Vincent on Dec 10, 2018 The first time I blogged for the BC Cancer Foundation was in February 2016; I’d been on the job at BC Cancer for only a few months. Time has flown by; I cannot believe I’ve been here three years. I sometimes think about three key things attracted me to this position. The first was the people who worked at BC Cancer: terrific, caring, committed people. They had been through a rough... Continue Reading BC Cancer - Abbotsford, BC Cancer - Kelowna, BC Cancer - Prince George, BC Cancer - Surrey, BC Cancer - Vancouver, BC Cancer - Victoria, BC Cancer Research Centre
Emerging knowledge transforming cancer treatment in BC By Vincent on Jan 12, 2018 Thanks to the BC Cancer Foundation for inviting me to be their guest blogger this month. As I near retirement this is a good time for me to reflect on the 37 years I have spent at BC Cancer and all the progress we have made in understanding and managing lymphoid cancers in that time. I grew up on Cape Cod in Massachusetts and received all of my education in the United States, including... Continue Reading BC Cancer Research Centre, Centre for Lymphoid Cancer
The future of cancer research in British Columbia By Vincent on Dec 27, 2017 There is much to look forward to with regard to cancer research and care here in British Columbia. My primary hope would be to improve our ability to provide the right treatments to patients much earlier than we are able to now. For the most part, we still give a one-size-fits-all approach to large cohorts of patients, depending on the type of tumour they have. There is a need to... Continue Reading BC Cancer Research Centre
A year of breakthroughs at BC Cancer By Vincent on Dec 20, 2017 We are very fortunate to have so many key visionaries at BC Cancer, who think big and outside the box as we work to solve the complex issue of this disease. As a result, our knowledge of cancer continues to grow, in turn boosting our ability to better prevent, detect and treat it. One of the biggest trends over the past year has been our focus on building the infrastructure to expand... Continue Reading BC Cancer Research Centre
Fostering an environment of research excellence By Vincent on Dec 12, 2017 Hello, My name is Dr. François Bénard, and I’m the Vice President of research at BC Cancer. It’s a pleasure to return as guest blogger for the BC Cancer Foundation as we wrap up 2017. A number of achievements have been made to move the needle this past year and I’m excited to discuss them with you this month. First – a little about me. In my role as Vice President of research,... Continue Reading BC Cancer Research Centre
The future of breast cancer care in British Columbia By Vincent on Oct 27, 2017 As I touched on last week, the importance of the BC Cancer Foundation and its donors cannot be overstated when it comes to fuelling new and more effective treatments for breast cancer. In large part because of this, I expect to see a significant shift in the way we diagnose, treat and manage patients facing this disease in British Columbia. Over the next ten years, I hope to see us... Continue Reading BC Cancer Research Centre, Breast Cancer
Cutting-edge research driven by patient experience By Vincent on Aug 22, 2017 Holding leadership roles at the BC Cancer Agency means that much of my time is spent in meetings and teleconference calls. This may sound boring, but meeting with other physicians and health care practitioners is essential to delivering state-of-the-art, quality oncology care with a patient-centred approach, which is very important to all of us the BC Cancer Agency. But... Continue Reading BC Cancer Research Centre, Prostate Cancer
Prostate cancer clinical trials yield promise By Vincent on Aug 15, 2017 Hello, I’m Dr. Kim Nguyen Chi, medical oncologist at the BC Cancer Agency – Vancouver Centre where I’m also the Regional Medical Director. My specialty area is prostate cancer for both my clinical work and research activities. My research is focused on clinical trials and development of biomarkers. Clinical trials are research involving people with cancer where we are trying to... Continue Reading BC Cancer Research Centre, Prostate Cancer
My Path to a Career in Cancer Research (Part III) By Laura Matwichuk on Mar 13, 2017 The sequencers at the GSC were rapidly gaining improvements in read length and throughput. I spent my time working with the more interesting (and complex) types of data that could be generated, beginning with “transcriptomes” and then “exomes”. Despite knowing I wanted to do a PhD, I had not yet been convinced of a project that I would want to spend the next three to five years on and... Continue Reading BC Cancer Research Centre, Breast Cancer, Genome Sciences Centre, Genomics, Lymphoid cancers, Personalized Onco-Genomics (POG)