Discover the stories and breakthroughs that continue to change cancer outcomes across British Columbia.
From a few individuals determined to do something about B.C.’s low cancer survival rates in the 1930s to the more than 80,000 people from across the province who give to cancer research and care today — since the very beginning, the BC Cancer Foundation has been driven by the collective power of community.
Read MoreHello readers! My name is Dr. Joseph Connors, and I’m the clinical director at the BC Cancer Agency’s Centre for Lymphoid Cancer. I’ve worked …
For my last post, I want to talk about some of the work we’re doing in collaboration with the BC Cancer Agency’s ovarian cancer …
October 29, 2010, Vancouver, BC – The capacity crowd of 400 dinner guests had philanthropy on their minds last night as they donated a …
Researchers from the BC Cancer Agency and from Pfizer oncology analyzed the expression of the P-cadherin protein in breast cancer and found that over-expression …
I promised to tell you about some of the projects we’re working on at the moment and how they fit into our overall goal …
In memory of Anita Cochrane. What is life? Almost 70 years ago, Nobel prize-winning physicist Erwin Schrodinger asked that question in …
Researchers used gene silencing to identify MST1R – a complimentary drug target for IGF1R therapy which, when silenced, boosts the efficacy of existing cancer …
October 14, 2010, Victoria, BC – The Kennametal Foundation announced a donation of $15,000 to the BC Cancer Foundation’s Inspire the World campaign. This …
As you might imagine, leading the BC Cancer Agency’s breast cancer research program keeps me very busy! And I’m not the only one: …
Researchers with the BC Cancer Agency’s Genome Sciences Centre developed two new approaches – ALEXASeq and Trans-ABySS – to characterize how the information in …
