Nathan Orlando is developing an alternative form of radiation therapy
1. Welcome back to the TBCRU, can you remind our readers who are you and tell us a little bit about yourself. Thank you very much! My name is Nathan Orlando. I’m a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Medical Biophysics at Western University, working under the supervision of Dr. Aaron Fenster. Before starting […]
Vy Ngo is investigating chemotherapy resistance in HER2+ breast cancer
1. Welcome back to the TBCRU, can you remind our readers who are you and tell us a little bit about yourself. My name is Vy Ngo, and I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Western University, working under the supervision of Dr. Martin Duennwald. I completed my […]
Creating better drugs to treat breast cancer
Alexandra Hauser-Kawaguchi, a PhD candidate in Dr. Len Luyt’s lab at the London Health Science Centre’s London Regional Cancer Program, works to help breast cancer patients fight the disease, but does so from her chemistry lab. “The drug development process that we focus on in our lab is on basic science. We carry out the […]
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 because of my personal connection with breast cancer. It involves my own baby girl, Nicole. Actually, she hasn’t been a baby for a long […]
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 Program, we study proteins that may be involved in the preferential metastasis (or spread) of breast cancer to the lung and the […]
“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 chemotherapy. Yet, Becky truly believes that her hormone-sensitive stage II breast cancer, which was diagnosed in 2016, has been […]
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 Society of Canada and the QEII foundation through the Beatrice Hunter Cancer Research Institute has been invaluable in helping me pursue my […]
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 will be hosting a number of tables in the Bay Adelaide Centre concourse, on July 25, 26 and 27, between 9am and 5pm. She will be […]
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 Breast Cancer Symposium. There is no doubt that being told you have metastatic breast cancer is a lot to take in, […]
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 immunology and oncolytic (cancer-killing) viruses. I received funding support from the Breast Cancer Society of Canada and the QEII Foundation through the Beatrice Hunter Cancer […]
