There was an article published Wednesday in the Toronto Star that we are entering the “Golden Age” of cancer research where we are moving towards new and personalized treatments for cancer patients.
I’m telling you about this because my colleagues at the BC Cancer Agency who are involved in research have been talking a lot about it lately too.
And the BC Cancer Foundation hosted a special donor event a few weeks ago that was all about personalized medicine being the future for cancer research and truly the answer to this disease that we have been working on for so long.
In fact, I’m very excited to be able to share with you the videos of this donor event, so that you can see and hear for yourself how four brilliant oncologists and researchers at the BC Cancer Agency describe personalized medicine.
They are Dr. Janessa Laskin (medical oncologist at the BC Cancer Agency), Dr. David Huntsman (Medical Director of the Centre for Translational Applied Genomics at the BC Cancer Agency), Dr. Marco Marra (Director of the BC Cancer Agency’s Genome Sciences Centre) and Dr. François Bénard (Scientific Director of the BC Cancer Agency’s Centre of Excellence for Functional Cancer Imaging)
But let me sum it up with the analogy that Dr. Janessa Laskin used that night.  She said if you are buying a new suit and you go to a department store, you might be lucky and find a suit that fits you. But if you go to a tailor, they will ask you the right questions, take the specific measurements and create a suit that fits you perfectly.
And that’s our hope: that one day we will be able to tailor cancer treatment to the individual patient and provide the treatment that’s a perfect fit for that person.
I also happen to know that here in BC we have some of the best “tailors” in the world!
Our researchers all say that the work they are doing and the discoveries they are making are directly linked to the generosity of our donors here in B.C. 
So on behalf of the BC Cancer Foundation, and on behalf of the researchers your donations are funding, I say thank you.

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