PRESS RELEASE / FOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION: Monday, November 18, 2024 $30-million gift from Calgary family lifts OWN.CANCER campaign to historic heights Cancer care forever changed in southern Alberta after fundraising campaign wraps with nearly $300 million in donations CALGARY, AB – A $30 million donation has brought the OWN.CANCER campaign to a triumphant close. A […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OWN.CANCER campaign announces $250K+ donation match to help make new Arthur J.E. Child Comprehensive Cancer Centre among world’s best The City of Calgary to recognize April 18-24, 2024, as OWN.CANCER week; local organizations to support OWN.CANCER campaign through individual initiatives CALGARY, AB (April 2, 2024) – Today, the Alberta Cancer Foundation, University […]
ARC Resources Ltd. donates $5 million to OWN.CANCER Campaign ahead of opening of new Arthur J.E. Child Comprehensive Cancer Centre in Calgary This is the campaign’s largest corporate gift and will support clinical trials and innovations in radiation oncology CALGARY, AB (March 12, 2024) – The Alberta Cancer Foundation, along with Alberta Health Services (AHS) […]
The Alberta Cancer Foundation, Alberta Health Services and the University of Calgary announce largest donation in Alberta Health Service’s history to the new Calgary Cancer Centre. 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. CALGARY, AB […]
Local philanthropist’s generosity pushes-forward world-leading research at new Calgary Cancer Centre April 25, 2023 – Alberta – Earlier detection, better treatments and possible cures—people with cancer living longer, better lives. Thanks to the generosity of local philanthropist and businessman, Wayne Foo, researchers in Alberta are paving the way to these discoveries and more. Foo and […]
Dr. Darren Brenner has done the math. He knows the chances of him walking through the Calgary Cancer Centre doors are high. Not as a doctor, but as a patient one day. He wants to make sure when he—or any other Albertan—is treated for cancer, his health-care team has the best possible data at their […]
UCalgary, Alberta Cancer Foundation and Alberta Health Services announce $250-million fundraising campaign. Calgary, AB – Construction on Canada’s largest, most ambitious and comprehensive stand-alone cancer centre is well underway. This is a once in a generation opportunity to transform treatment, research and patient care for this deadly disease. A new fundraising campaign launched today to […]
Partnering with patients to design the Calgary Cancer Centre. After a three-hour drive from Medicine Hat to Calgary’s Foothills Medical Centre, Charlotte Kessler walked into her doctor’s appointment in 2013 thinking she was out of the woods. She’d recently had what was believed to be a benign, one-and-a-half-inch mass removed from her frontal lobe, and was […]
