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Breast Cancer

Mammary OMICs: Intercepting Breast Cancer Early to Improve Outcomes

A new partnership between the Terry Fox Research Institute (TFRI) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) will enable a team of multidisciplinary researchers to cover much needed ground ...
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All Cancers

Canadian Tissue Repository Network (CTRNet)

To do their jobs, cancer researchers need to be able to access high-quality tumour samples. These samples allow them to test new drugs, observe similarities and differences between tumours and learn m...
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Completed

Pediatric & Young Adult Cancers

Access to precision therapies for young people with cancer: From genomic innovation to health system implementation

In recent years, new technologies have enabled researchers to gain a clearer understanding of the genetic mutations that cause cancer in each individual. These discoveries are ushering in a new era in...
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Completed

Pediatric & Young Adult Cancers

Measuring and targeting symptom burden among adolescents and young adults with cancer: A population-based study using routinely collected patient reported outcomes

How does cancer affect adolescents and young adults with cancer? What kind of side effects do they experience from treatment and how do these symptoms affect their outcome? These are just some of the ...
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Completed

Head & Neck Cancers

Symptom Burden as a Predictor of Emergency Room Visits and Unplanned Hospitalizations in Patients with Head and Neck Cancer

A Toronto-based surgeon-scientist will use a recently granted Terry Fox New Investigator Award to study how symptoms associated with current therapies affect the lives of patients with head and neck c...
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Completed

Brain Cancer

Deciphering the therapy-driven molecular evolution of glioblastoma stem cells

If you were to look inside a tumour, you’d notice that not all its cells are the same. In fact, over the past decade researchers have found that tumours contain several types of cells, each with...
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Completed

Breast Cancer

New era of precision medicine in triple-negative breast cancer

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) persists as a deadly form of breast cancer today that lacks effective therapies. Now, a newly formed and funded Terry Fox Research Institute team hopes to employ a...
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