One of the largest comprehensive cancer centres in North America is coming to life in Calgary this very second. Concrete walls rising to the big prairie sky will shelter 1.3 million square feet of world-leading cancer care, research and education.
The Alberta Cancer Foundation, the University of Calgary, and Alberta Health Services are partnering together with one mission — to raise $250 million in support of improved cancer research, treatment and care at the new Calgary Cancer Centre when it opens its doors in 2024.
We’re asking all Albertans to join us in this once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform cancer care and treatment.
The Arthur J.E. Child Foundation makes remarkable $50 million donation to the Calgary Cancer Centre, officially naming the building the Arthur J.E. Child Comprehensive Cancer Centre.
We are thrilled to announce a historic and transformational $50 million donation to OWN.CANCER from the Arthur J.E. Child Foundation. With this donation, the cancer centre will officially be named the Arthur J.E. Child Comprehensive Cancer Centre. Or, “The Arthur Child” for short.
This is the largest gift to cancer care and research in Alberta’s history.
This $50 million gift – and every gift to the OWN.CANCER campaign – will accelerate research innovations and providing world-leading cancer care to individuals in Calgary, Alberta, and beyond when the centre opens its doors in 2024.
You too can help us OWN.CANCER.
We acknowledge that the city of Calgary and the new Arthur J.E. Child Comprehensive Cancer Centre exist on the traditional and ancestral territory of the Niitsitapi. We are grateful to live, work and play on these lands where the Blackfoot, Tsuut’ina, Stoney Nakoda and the Métis peoples have lived and cared for these lands for generations, and we acknowledge the gifts provided by Elders and Knowledge Keepers. We recognize the First Nations, Métis Nation of Alberta Region 3 and the many urban First Nations, Métis and Inuit whose cancer care may be entrusted to those of us working in the current and new Arthur J.E. Child Comprehensive Cancer Centre. We make this acknowledgement an act of reconciliation and gratitude to those whose territory on which we live.

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Big dreams need support. We’re raising $250 million to accelerate research innovations and provide world-leading cancer care and treatment. Thanks to the Arthur J.E. Child Comprehensive Cancer Centre, and your support, cancer stops here.
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