BC Cancer Foundation - Fall 2015 - (Page 8)
On the Way to
Personalized
Cures
How cancer becomes a manageable disease
T
echnology has led to a
radical shift in the understanding of cancer over
the past decade.
With an explosion in new
knowledge and the ability to diagnose patients at the most personal
genomic level, the future is ripe
for more cures to be uncovered on
a patient-by-patient basis.
BC Cancer Agency researchers have
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PARTNERS IN DISCOVERY
been leaders in redefining cancer as
a disease of the individual's genome,
discovering critical mutations responsible in ovarian, lymphoid, breast
and rare cancers.
Trailblazing in the field of precision
medicine, the Agency's Personalized
Onco-Genomics (POG) Program has
made a permanent mark in medical
history by finding genomics a place
in the clinic.
ZURI'S EXPERIENCE
Medical leader of POG Dr. Janessa
Laskin explains that by studying the
genome-the set of instructions for
each cell-from DNA to RNA to proteins of everyone's cancer, we will
eventually be able to find targets
and the drugs that shut down these
cancer cells.
This approach is what led to Zuri
Scrivens' reprieve from metastatic
breast cancer. The young mother was
still on a new-parent high with her
infant son and relishing the accomplishment of completing her first
Ride to Conquer Cancer fundraising
event when she was diagnosed.
Treatment worked initially, but
her cancer returned, having spread
to her lymph nodes and liver.
"Honestly, my world just crumbled,"
she says. "I thought my life was over
and I really wondered if I'd even be here
two months from that point."
Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of BC Cancer Foundation - Fall 2015
BC Cancer Foundation - Fall 2015
Contents
Opening Thoughts
Healthy Insights
Why I Give
Researcher Profile
On the Way to Personalized Cures
Donors Are Saving Lives Today and Tomorrow
The Next Decade of Discovery
Legacy Giving
Regional Roundup
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