Province Announces Cancer Funding
Prince George, B.C. – The provincial government has announced $3 million in funding for the BC Cancer Foundation.
The money will provide a boost to the Personalized Onco-Genomics program and high priority cancer projects to help find unique cures for the hardest to beat cancers.
“The future of cancer care is personalized, leading to the best, targeted treatments for the most challenging cases – and we’ve already seen a number of success stories out of this program,” said Premier Christy Clark.
“A growing, diverse economy gives us the ability to support the BC Cancer Foundation in spearheading significant research projects that cure illness, improve treatments, and save lives.”
In a news release, Victoria added: “The goals of the Personalized Onco-Genomics (POG) are to apply advanced genome sequencing techniques to patients in real-time: decode the genome (the entire DNA cell inside the cell of each patient’s cancer) to understand what is enabling it to grow, and to develop treatment strategies to block its growth.
“By understanding the genetic makeup of a patient’s tumour, researchers hope to pinpoint potential drug therapies that would be the most effective for that specific tumour at that time, and spare patients and the health care system from treatments that have little or no clinical benefit.”
The government says the program is expanding from 350 to 2,000 patients over the next five years.
Currently the study can enroll six to eight patients per week and has treated patients with over 50 different types of cancer.
Today’s money follows a $2 million investment by the government in October to support breast cancer research.
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why… they have proven numerous natural cures and remedies for cancer.. kemo therapy has been shown to kill some cancers but others show up years later..its not a cure.. instead of giving all these huge pharmaceutical companies billions its time to put the money into natural remedies.. Even the FDA has posted a release that marijuana kills cancer cells… and yet it remains illegal… doesn’t get much stupider than that..
How much of this money will go to administration and advertising?
Wow, you guys are against cancer treatment? What are you going to do after work, kick your dog?
krusty….STFU…and then sum….
I am all for cancer treatments krusty.. But real ones.. It’s been shown mammograms cause cancer, colonoscopy causes cancer.. Kemo causes cancer.. Lots of people are getting very rich off the dying.. Time to do real research on cures.
A growing, diverse economy gives us the ability to support the BC Cancer Foundation
Christy you just had to throw that in there didn’t you.
Tliotg, heed your own advice. Pval, why don’t you submit some sources for this information. If you’re going to make claims that well-established cancer detection methods actually cause cancer, you better be prepared to back up those claims. Otherwise, it comes off as sheer, tinfoil hat nuttiness.
Posted on Tuesday, January 12, 2016 @ 3:55 PM by Krusty with a score of 4
Wow, you guys are against cancer treatment? What are you going to do after work, kick your dog?
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More then 50% of funds raised for the Canadian Cancer Agency go to administration and advertising costs. I just want to know if the BC Cancer Agency is any different? I doubt it, as with any bureaucracy, there will be an inordinate number of “workers” leeching off the teat.
Cancer research is BIG business.
I can’t spoon feed you facts and figures if you can’t take the time to look them up yourself. Tell me why they no longer make men over 50 have a colonoscopy … Because it does more harm than good. Do research on the FDA site for,their info on pot killing cancer cells. You can avoid the truth..but don’t be ignorant to it.
I can’t help thinking that all of you who are opposed to this spending and research would be pushing the rest of us out of your way in your rush to obtain and receive treatment, any treatment and every treatment if you were unfortunately diagnosed with cancer!
Cancer’s a bitch! None of us would ever wish for a cancer diagnosis, but if it happened I believe that each and every one of us would cling to any chance of successful treatment, any hope for a cure, any possibility to see another day, another year!
Just my opinion!
P Val, hate to say it but speaking of colonoscopies, you have your head up your butt! Men over 50 are still being sent for colonoscopies!
Having lost a very good friend to colon cancer, I was more than happy to both have a colonoscopy and to have the results come back clean as a whistle!
Perhaps you are just scared to have this simple procedure? It’s ok if you are, no one will think any less of you! ;-)
Hart Guy, perhaps more likely that PVal is afraid he might enjoy a colonoscopy. And he responded exactly as I thought he would, which is to dodge the challenge to provide some data. Probably doesn’t realize that most of us deal in facts versus fantasy.
Actually colonoscopies are still being done on a regular basis. Barium enemas for examining the digestive tract have been mostly discontinued due to concerns about radiation levels. Virtual colonoscopy is a new technique which constructs a 3D computer image of the colon after a scan. But the colour camera colonoscopy method is still the most accurate. The camera can even be turned around and look at the gut in the other direction, at the same time biopsy samples can be taken.
Cancer on BC =crusty clark…..Dam her..
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