News and Announcements

KELOWNA, B.C. – The BC Cancer Foundation is pleased to announce a $5 million fundraising initiative to bring a PET/CT scanner to the BC Cancer Agency’s Sindi Ahluwalia Hawkins Centre for the Southern Interior. With more than 5,000 new cancer diagnoses expected this year in the region, the time to bring this essential diagnostic tool to Kelowna is now. Each year, more than 900 patients must travel...

VANCOUVER, B.C. – Hundreds of British Columbians united for the month of May to exercise every day, raising an inspiring $275,000, benefitting the BC Cancer Foundation. These funds will support critical cancer research and enhancements to care at BC Cancer that will allow clinicians to better detect, diagnose and treat cancer for the 77,000 British Columbians facing the disease this year. Workout...

VANCOUVER, B.C. – BC Cancer Agency scientists have uncovered seven new subtypes of ovarian cancer, which could result in new treatment strategies for some ovarian cancer patients including those that do not respond well to chemotherapy. The discovery, published in Nature Genetics , analyzed the genetic information of more than 100 ovarian cancer patients in order to identify abnormalities in the...

Vancouver, B.C. – Hosted last evening at Bacchus Restaurant in Vancouver’s Wedgewood Hotel & Spa, Frank Giustra Cooks brought together culinary ingenuity and philanthropy to raise a total of $247,500 toward The Eleni Skalbania Fund for Brain Cancer, benefitting the BC Cancer Foundation. At the sold-out, intimate culinary experience, guests of Frank Giustra Cooks enjoyed a cocktail reception...

Surrey, B.C. – BC Cancer Agency’s Fraser Valley Centre is expanding with a new chemotherapy unit, more research space and enhanced patient-focused services to improve cancer care for patients and families in the Fraser Valley region. The expansion will increase chemotherapy treatment chair capacity by 28 per cent – with an average extra 4,300 patient visits for a total of 15,000 visits per year...

VANCOUVER, B.C. – The BC Cancer Foundation and the Leon Judah Blackmore Foundation today announce the official recipient of its first Chair in Lung Cancer Research, Dr. Stephen Lam, who is the chair of the Provincial Lung Tumour Group and director of the MDS-Rix Early Lung Cancer Detection and Translational Research Program at the BC Cancer Agency. Dr. Lam’s new title is bolstered by a $1.5-...

VANCOUVER, B.C. – Two exciting drug discoveries have been made at the BC Cancer Agency by Dr. Sam Aparicio, head of the Department of Breast and Molecular Oncology, and his team. Both discoveries are opening up new approaches to targeting cancers more specifically, by exploiting mutations present in cancer cells that are not present in normal cells. The first discovery, which has already led to a...

VANCOUVER, B.C. – A revolutionary precision medicine trial funded by BC Cancer Foundation donors takes the spotlight in a CBC documentary that aired Thursday, February 23rd, 2017. Zuri Scrivens, cancer survivor with Dr. Janessa Laskin The Nature of Things documentary, Cracking Cancer , recounts the journey of seven cancer patients at the BC Cancer Agency as they take part in the Personalized Onco...

VANCOUVER, B.C. – BC Cancer Agency researcher – Dr. Sam Aparicio – has been announced as a member of one of the first global research teams to be recipients of Cancer Research UK’s Grand Challenge. The Grand Challenge aims to help overcome the biggest challenges facing cancer research in a global effort to beat cancer sooner. The winning projects are set to revolutionize our understanding of...

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...