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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

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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

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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! Alexia

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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

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Finding cancer: Improving x-ray detector technology for earlier detection of breast cancer

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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