BC Cancer - Victoria
Dr. John Webb: Manufacturing T Cells for Immunotherapy Clinical Trials
Hello everyone, my name is Dr. John Webb and I’m the senior project leader for the upcoming immunotherapy clinical trials at the BC Cancer …
Coming to Canada to Train in Radiation Oncology
I chose to come to Canada for many reasons. I didn’t need to do much research to find out that Canadian universities are among …
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 …
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 …
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 June Guest Blogger Dr. Kim Chi
Thank you to Dr. Peter Watson for a month of fascinating insights from the BC Cancer Agency - Victoria. From biobanking to breast cancer research …
A Look Inside the Tumour Tissue Repository and Final Thoughts
The BC Cancer Agency’s Tumour Tissue Repository (TTR) is another example of a biobank that owes much of its success to generous donations to …
Biobanks: Critical to Progress in Cancer Research
This week I would like to talk about biobanks and tell you a little more about how they work.
Biobanks operate by coordinating a process …
Discovering a Link Between Breast Cancer Research and Immunotherapy
As I described earlier this week, my colleagues and I had recently discovered a link between resistance to hormone therapy in breast cancer patients …