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Introducing January Guest Blogger Dr. Randy Gascoyne
Happy New Year! Before I introduce our first blogger of 2015, I have some very exciting news to share: thanks to the generosity of …
BC Cancer Foundation raises $6.5 million to secure first-in-Canada treatment technology at the BC Cancer Agency
Vancouver, BC – The BC Cancer Foundation has reached its $6.5-million fundraising target to purchase a state-of-the-art Vero™ machine to benefit cancer patients across …
Celebrating the Achievements of Vancouver Island Medical Physicists
All good things must come to an end and so it has for my short month as the BC Cancer Foundation’s guest blogger! I …
How BC Cancer Foundation Donors Support Research on Vancouver Island
Hello again! This week I want to tell you about how BC Cancer Foundation donors have supported our cancer research. While I will …
BC Cancer Agency Researchers Co-Lead $60 Million National Initiative for Innovative Cancer Treatments
VANCOUVER – BC Cancer Agency researchers will play a key role in the first Network of Centres of Excellence (NCE) devoted to cancer research, …
Care and Research: Providing the Best Available Therapies for Patients Today
Welcome back! After giving you a sense last week of where I’ve come from and how I’ve ended up in B.C. I thought I …
$905,005 raised at BC Cancer Foundation’s Jingle Mingle accelerating immunotherapy clinical trials
The funds raised will go towards accelerating immunotherapy clinical trials.
BC Cancer Agency lay the foundation for clinical trials involving “adoptive T cell therapy”
Dr. Brad Nelson, Director of the BC Cancer Agency’s Trev & Joyce Deeley Research Centre in Victoria, and his team lay the foundation for …
Dr. Wayne Beckham: My Path to a Career in Medical Physics
Hello everyone, I’m pleased to have been asked to be this month’s guest blogger (I’ve never been an official blogger before!).
I grew up in …
Introducing December Guest Blogger Dr. Wayne Beckham
December is off to an exciting start, with yesterday’s publication of a paper by BC Cancer Agency scientists in the prestigious journal …