Patient Stories
Tania Sallinen’s Story: Celebrating Life After Ovarian Cancer
Like most moms, Tania Sallinen has a lot of feelings about her oldest child Kyle graduating from high school in June. But her biggest …
Planned Giving – Honouring a Past Love
Article was originally published in Victoria Times Colonist on May 1, 2024.
“Don’t cry because it’s over; smile because it happened.”
Diane Scott found this sentiment …
In Memory of Rocket Norton
Canada lost a music icon, and the BC Cancer Foundation lost a champion, last week when Prism drummer Rocket Norton passed away after three …
Stopping to Plant the Roses: Adele Cave’s Story
A growing body of science is proving nature benefits physical and mental health. Adele Cave recovered from cancer with the help of a garden. …
Dr. Jessica McAlpine: Driving Research and Care to Help Women Achieve a Life Beyond Cancer
Dr. Jessica McAlpine works just two blocks from the Vancouver hospital where she was born. But her path to BC Cancer, where she’s head …
Life Beyond Cancer: Heather Geluk on Regaining Strength and Joy After Cancer
Over the past 10 years, Heather Geluk, an accomplished high-altitude mountaineer, has kept a blog titled “The People You Meet Along the Way”. The …
Life Beyond Cancer: Chris Ho on finding his purpose after facing cancer as a family
Hours after Chris Ho found out his father had Stage 4 lung cancer, he also learned his wife was expecting their first child. Chris’ …
Life Beyond Cancer: Rosalyn Salanguit on being seen — and heard — after oral cancer
After an 11-hour surgery which included a tongue graft of tissue and an artery from her forearm and a neck dissection to remove 47 …
From Last Hope to New Life
Noel Schacter visits the Deeley Research Centre’s Conconi Family Immunotherapy Lab’s “clean room” where CAR T-cells are manufactured.
Noel Schacter …
Riding for all the Fierce Flowers Facing Cancer
Some see the dandelion as a pretty, if pestilent, yellow weed. Others — once it’s gone to puffy, white seed — see it as …