The BC Cancer Foundation has received a record-breaking $18.3-million anonymous donation.
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The funding will be used to expand care for people suffering from metastatic cancer.
B次元官网网址淭his gift will create a new program at BC Cancer called the molecular imaging and therapeutics program,B次元官网网址� Roth said.
B次元官网网址淭his game-changing program will bring lifesaving solutions to people who are facing an incurable cancer, where there is little to no hope.B次元官网网址�
BC Cancer projects that more than 28,000 people in B.C. will be diagnosed with cancer in 2019, a number that is expected to grow to nearly 40,000 by 2031.
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Dr. Francois Benard, who will lead the new initiative, said the donation will build on the work of the functional imaging program, which has already provided scans to 72,000 British Columbians over the past dozen years.
B次元官网网址淚t will support infrastructure, a scale-up of activities, scientific development of radioactive isotope treatments and launch a series of clinical trials,B次元官网网址� Benard said.
According to BC Cancer, the new therapies will be especially helpful for prostate and thyroid cancer, neuroendocrine and liver tumours, non-Hodgkin lymphoma and bone metastases and other diseases.
The funds will be used to further develop B次元官网网址渟mart drugsB次元官网网址� that can both detect and treat cancer by specifically honing in on affected cells.
He said because the radiation used in smart drugs is injected systemically, the treatment will reach everywhere in the body and can be used to treat metastatic cancer instead of localized cancer.
Metastatic cancer has long been considered more deadly and harder to treat than cancer that hasnB次元官网网址檛 spread, he said.
Although the new treatment was still experimental and B次元官网网址渘ot a miracle cure,B次元官网网址� Benard said, it offered hope to patients who before had no real treatment options available.
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