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Shelley Warner: My cancer story, is not a death sentence
We would like you to meet Shelley Warner. Over the next month’s Shelley will be sharing a window in to her cancer story with us. As an introduction to her story, Shelley brings us up to her present...
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Chemotherapy sounds the alarm
Greetings! My name is Pat Murphy, a postdoctoral fellow in the Departments of Pathology and Microbiology and Immunology at Dalhousie University in Dr. Shashi Gujar’s laboratory where we study cancer...
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Presenting, Learning, and Engaging
The value in attending a professional cancer research conference Hello! My name is Ashkan Sadri and I’m a Masters candidate in Dr. Alison Allan’s lab in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at...
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Novel Molecular Imaging Technologies
Hello! My name is Katie Parkins and I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Medical Biophysics at Western University. I work in the Imaging Research Laboratories at Robarts Research Institute under...
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Pizza for Research
The questions! Oh, the many questions of a six year old. As a breast cancer researcher with a young child I get the usual barrage of questions about life but with a few tricky additions like “why do...
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Breast cancer cell migration research
Hello, everyone! My name is Sami Khan and I’m an MSc candidate in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at Western University. I work at London Cancer Regional Program under the supervision of Dr....
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Finding cancer: Improving x-ray detector technology for earlier detection of...
Hello! I’m Tomi Nano, a PhD candidate in the department of Medical Biophysics at Western University. I work at Robarts Research Institute in Dr. Ian Cunningham’s lab on development of new x-ray...
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Finding a Novel Strategy to Prevent Metastasis
“What my patients with early stage breast cancer really fear is to hear the word ‘metastasis’.” Most oncologists would agree with this statement, which I once heard from a presenter at the San Antonio...
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Miss Teenage Toronto supports BCSC
Miss Teenage Toronto 2017 (Alexia Antonio) has been very active this July, volunteering and running fundraising events across Toronto in support of a number of different charities, including ours!...
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Personalized radiation from the inside-out
My name is Justin Michael and I’m an MESc candidate studying in the Department of Biomedical Engineering under Dr. Aaron Fenster in the Robarts Research Institute. Just weeks after Canada’s 150th...
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3D Surface Imaging Technique for Breast Cancer
My name is Olivia Tong and I am a MESc candidate in the Department of Biomedical Engineering under Drs. Jeffrey Carson and Mamadou Diop at Lawson Health Research Institute. We are developing a...
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Uncovering the role of RNA in breast cancer
My name is Thomas Huynh and I’m a Masters student in Dr. Paola Marcato’s laboratory in the Department of Pathology at Dalhousie University. The support generously provided to me by the Breast Cancer...
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Marc Guay – What’s my Breast Cancer Story?
Marc Guay sits on the Breast Cancer Society of Canada board of directors, we recently asked him what his cancer story is. This is the story he told us, this is Marc Guay’s cancer story. It never really...
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“Research is a shared responsibility of participants and investigators”
Becky S., 37, calls herself “a girl on a winning streak.” That might sound a bit strange after you learn that she is a breast cancer survivor who has had an extensive history of surgery and...
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Introducing New Breast Cancer Research Trainee Scholarships in London
We are pleased to announce 13 new graduate student scholarships at Western University for the 2017-2018 academic year. These awards are supported by the Breast Cancer Society of Canada’s very generous...
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What being a breast cancer researcher has taught me.
Hello! My name is Ashkan Sadri and I’m a Masters candidate in Dr. Alison Allan’s lab in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at Western University, just coming to the conclusion of my thesis...
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Investigating early events in estrogen signaling
Hi, my name is Bart Kolendowski and I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Biochemistry at Western University. I currently work at the London Regional Cancer Program in Dr. Joe Torchia’s lab...
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Determining how proteins interact with breast cancer cells
Hello, everyone! My name is Sami Khan and I’m an MSc candidate in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at Western University. In Dr. Alison Allan’s laboratory at the London Regional Cancer...
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Kathy Steffan – What’s My Breast Cancer Story?
Throughout my professional career, I have been involved with many non-profilt organizations, both as a board member and as an auditor/advisor. I feel that this is my most significant board involvement...
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I know firsthand how important research is – Ruth Ackerman
Ruth Ackerman’s story inspires the kind of work the Breast Cancer Society is funding. We hope you will also find inspiration in her story and take part in Giving Tuesday on this November 28th, by...
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