Fortifying a Foundation in Cancer Care for Future Generations
You can’t drive far in downtown Vancouver without passing a monument to Jim Mutrie. His 40-year professional legacy as a structural engineer lives on …
Clinical Trials
BC Cancer Clinicians Honoured for Excellence in Clinical Trial Work
BC Cancer’s Drs. Robert Olson and Bernie Eigl were recently recognized by the 2024 Clinical Trials BC Awards for their outstanding contributions to the …
Clinical trials are changing outcomes for cancer in British Columbia
Clinical trials are essential in our quest to deliver better treatment to patients here in BC. One such patient, Jacqueline Patrick, was diagnosed with …
Clinical trials give patients new lease on life
Patients are the heart of what we do. Every day as we get closer to developing newer and more effective methods for cancer prevention …
Enrolling in a clinical trial ‘saved my life”
The main reason I’m passionate about clinical trials is because they're the only way we can move medicine forward and achieve the kind of …
Thrilling Progress Happening in Clinical Research
There are a lot of exciting developments happening right now in the realm of clinical research at BC Cancer. New discoveries are being put to …
Interpreting PET/CT Images to Offer the Best Cancer Treatment
Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography, or PET/CT, is an imaging method that uses a sophisticated machine to generate images of patients following the injection of …
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 …
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 …