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Lung Cancer

Early detection of lung cancer

Why are non-smokers with little exposure to second-hand smoke diagnosed with the disease while others are not? Why do some heavy smokers never develop lung cancer, while other lighter smokers do? Thes...
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Blood Cancers

Exploring clonal evolution in non-Hodgkin lymphomas using serial tumour sampling and liquid biopsies

Working at the BC Genome Sciences Centre a decade ago, Dr. Ryan Morin didn’t intend to become a cancer researcher. Yet today, following the path he began as a graduate student, he is using his e...
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Completed

Blood Cancers

Epigenetic basis of acute myeloid leukemia

Vitamin C may be best known for its role in preventing the common cold, but Dr. Martin Hirst’s research suggests it may also reverse abnormal and potentially cancer causing changes to the epigen...
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Completed

Blood Cancers

Molecular correlates of treatment failure in lymphoid cancers

BC Cancer Agency investigator and TFRI-funded researcher Dr. Randy Gascoyne, research director at the BC Cancer Agency’s Centre for Lymphoid Cancer (CLC), talks about his work in lymphoma, the f...
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Completed

Brain Cancer

Modeling and therapeutic targeting of the clinical and genetic diversity in glioblastoma multiforme

Glioblastoma is a deadly brain cancer that currently has no cure, and has lagged behind major treatment advances other cancers have benefited from. But there’s hope: an Alberta-based, TFRI-funde...
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