News and Announcements

April 15, 2010, Vancouver, B.C. - Lunchtime crowds were treated to a brief spectacle today as teams of runners dressed in little more than oversized underwear raced around the Vancouver Art Gallery building to kick off the BC Cancer Foundation’s 2010 Underwear Affair® presented by Mark’s Work Wearhouse. The BC Cancer Foundation’s 5th annual Underwear Affair takes place on July 10th, to raise...

March 10, 2010, Vancouver, B.C. - New research published today in the New England Journal of Medicine sheds new light on which Hodgkin lymphoma patients are likely to relapse after receiving treatment. BC Cancer Agency researchers have discovered that the number of macrophages – a type of white blood cell that normally scavenges foreign material – found in a patient’s tumour had a strong...

ITM, CHMB AM1320 and the BC Cancer Foundation are partnering together again to host a Glamour Gala Dinner.

February 23, 2010, Vancouver, B.C. - Scientists at the BC Cancer Agency and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute have generated a promising new method that may one day aid oncologists in the faster identification of which chemotherapy regimens may be useful for treating a particular patient’s non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and which are unlikely to be effective. The results of their...

February 2, 2010, Victoria, B.C. - The Norgaard Foundation, a private family foundation based in Sidney, B.C. today announced a donation of $250,000 to the BC Cancer Foundation’s Inspire the World capital campaign. The gift helped kick off the campaign’s 2010 fundraising year and carried it past the $ 5 million threshold, halfway to its $10 million goal. The Inspire the World campaign was...

January 18, 2010, Vancouver, B.C. - Scientists from the BC Cancer Agency have discovered a never before seen DNA spelling mistake, or mutation, in a gene called EZH2 in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and follicular lymphoma, the two most common types of non-Hodgkins lymphoma. This groundbreaking discovery, which was published online on January 17 in the prestigious international science journal...

October 23, 2009, Vancouver, B.C. - The 2009 Inspiration Gala raised $1.27 million for the BC Cancer Foundation and colorectal cancer research at the BC Cancer Agency last night, as nearly 400 guests dined and donated during the emotion-filled, sold-out event. The Gala , emceed by CTV news anchor Pamela Martin, was held at Vancouver’s Rocky Mountaineer Station, which was transformed into a winter...

October 22, 2009, Victoria, B.C. - Thrifty Foods has announced a donation of $300,000 to the BC Cancer Foundation’s Inspire the World campaign to establish the Thrifty Foods Patient Information Library in the BC Cancer Agency’s Vancouver Island Centre. Over 4,000 people are diagnosed with cancer on Vancouver Island each year. Newly-diagnosed patients and their network of friends, family members...

October 7, 2009, Vancouver, B.C., Canada – For the first time in history, BC Cancer Agency scientists in British Columbia, Canada have decoded all of the three billion letters in the DNA sequence of a metastatic lobular breast cancer tumour, a type of breast cancer which accounts for about 10 per cent of all breast cancers, and have found all of the mutations, or “spelling” mistakes that caused...