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Strategic Priority Fund Award: Dr. Dirk van Niekerk
Support from the Strategic Priority Fund Award will allow Dr. Dirk van Niekerk, medical director, Cervical Screening Program, BC Cancer Agency, to embark on …
Strategic Priority Fund Award: Dr. Pierre Lane
Dr. Pierre Lane, senior scientist, will use the support from his Strategic Priority Fund award to embark on his research project titled Novel image-guided …
Strategic Priority Fund Award: Dr. David Huntsman
Dr. David Huntsman, Dr. Chew Wei memorial professor of gynecologic oncology and director of the BC multidisciplinary ovarian cancer research team (OVCARE), will use …
Strategic Priority Fund Award: Dr. Connie Eaves
Support from the Strategic Priority Fund award will allow Dr. Connie Eaves, distinguished scientist, and her colleagues Drs Davide Pellicani and Martin Hirst to …
Reflecting on the Pace of Cancer Discovery
In his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of cancer, “The Emperor of All Maladies,” Siddhartha Mukherjee quotes the Red Queen from Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking …
B.C. Clinical Trials: A Unique Approach Achieves Results
Yesterday started off well but ended poorly. I saw Chris for his regular visit – he’d just returned from a vacation …
Finding New Hope Through Clinical Trials
As a medical oncologist, I specialize in treating about five cancer types, and the main focus of my current research is in bladder …
Achieving Great Things in B.C., Thanks to Donors
It’s an honour and privilege to be invited back as a BC Cancer Foundation guest blogger. It is hard to believe that it has already …
Introducing January Guest Blogger Dr. Bernie Eigl
I’d like to thank Sarah Sample and Paula Myers for closing out 2016 with insightful blog posts about progress happening at the BC Cancer …
A Few Thoughts from Patients
Hello, it’s Paula here again! Since I last wrote, I asked a few patients to contribute to the blog and share their thoughts about …