News and Announcements

VANCOUVER, B.C. – Today on World Cancer Day, the BC Cancer Foundation and BC Cancer Agency announce the recipients of $1.5 M in funding to advance cancer detection and care through a brand new program titled the Strategic Priority Fund Awards. The funding will provide seven BC Cancer Agency research recipients with innovative cancer projects the opportunity to advance groundbreaking research that...

VICTORIA, B.C. – The BC Cancer Foundation’s 10th annual Jingle Mingle, presented by Proline Property Management, has raised an incredible $1.74 million to bring state-of-the-art imaging closer to home for patients in need. Thanks to the generosity of guests at this year’s festive and sophisticated evening, funds have been kick started to bring a critical piece of equipment – a PET-CT scanner – to...

KELOWNA, B.C. – The BC Cancer Foundation’s 2016 Discovery Luncheon - Kelowna raised an amazing $100,000 in support of an expanded treatment program for women with gynaecological cancers at the BC Cancer Agency Sindi Ahluwalia Hawkins Centre for the Southern Interior. The sixth annual Discovery Luncheon celebrated the importance of discovery research happening each year in Kelowna at the BC Cancer...

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. – The BC Cancer Foundation’s 2016 Discovery Luncheon - Abbotsford raised over $40,000 to support the acquisition of a critical piece of equipment that will provide better patient outcomes and create clinical efficiencies for lung cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy at the BC Cancer Agency’s Abbotsford Centre. Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer death in both...

VANCOUVER, B.C. – The BC Cancer Foundation announced a spectacular $3.05 million raised to support the launch of NETRACER: Compounds to Conquer Cancer at its annual black tie Inspiration Gala on Saturday evening at The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver. NETRACER is a world-class radionuclide therapy program that benefits patients with neuroendocrine cancers (NETs) and will be developed to benefit other...

The gift from Tru Value Foods to the BC Cancer Foundation will help ensure local patients continue to have access to the latest in cancer care.

Vancouver, B.C. – The BC Cancer Foundation’s 2016 Hope Couture , presented by CDN Jade Mine Resources, today announces an incredible $900,000 raised to support important research into personalized lymphoma care at the BC Cancer Agency’s Centre for Lymphoid Cancer. Thanks to all donors and a generous gift of $500,000 from Samuel and Frances Belzberg by way of the Bel-Fran Charitable Foundation,...

Vancouver – New multi-gene analysis panels are now available to oncologists and haematologists across British Columbia as provincial diagnostic tools, meaning a more personalized approach to treatment for thousands of eligible cancer patients. The OncoPanel and Myeloid Panel are clinical tests that can detect multiple different mutations in several genes simultaneously associated with solid or...

VANCOUVER: August 27, 2016 - The Ride to Conquer Cancer presented by Silver Wheaton announced 1,687 riders helped raise $7.1 million for the BC Cancer Foundation as the eighth annual Ride commenced in British Columbia on Saturday. Funds raised through BC's largest cycling fundraiser support breakthrough cancer research and innovations in care at the BC Cancer Agency. Overwhelming support from the...

Vancouver, B.C. – A record 750 cyclists took part in the 9 th annual Glotman Ÿ Simpson Cypress Challenge this Sunday to advance critical research in pancreatic cancer. More than $400,000 was raised this year benefiting the BC Cancer Foundation. The timed 12km ride up Cypress Mountain draws cyclists of all levels who want to make a difference in the lives of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer...