“I call everyone here to action, to put their ideas together, and as a team, think about how we can bring these proven interventions forward and help more of those of us who are patients fight this disease.”
– Ariadne Holness de Hiller, GCI Patient Partner 💜
Exciting news! Ms. Sarah Roth, the President and CEO of @bccancerfdn just announced that Ms. Nancy McKinstry and her husband have created an endowment that has now raised over $300,000 to Gynecologic Cancer Research!
Really excited to have presented my studio project, "57 Action for a Climate Resilient Campus" in collaboration with @ubcokanagan Campus Planning. Take a read through our report and connect if you want to chat climate change and creating more healthy and resilient communities!
Slowly seeing more conversation on the benefit of embedding public health policies and frameworks into urban planning. Every planning and development decision has human-level health outcomes. How is BC doing in this area?
Beyond the Stories: Molecular Classification/ ProMisE is now out! 🎉 Watch to hear from patients Stephani and Margaret as well as Dr. Jessica McAlpine and Amy Jamieson, as they talk about the value of the ProMisE molecular classification system ⏩: https://t.co/ZRnvirZ3kf
This chart shows only cancer cases being booked at VGH. Gyn cancers are the major outlier being 99% outside target, highlighting systemic inequities in OR allocation.
The GCI Professional Development Series presents “What About Biotech Startups?” on Nov 23! Come hear from #biotech startup founders and CEOs from @ZentrelaInc, Inverted AI and AIMA Laboratories Inc. 🤩
Register here ⏩: https://t.co/n6tv9PN1t9
We are excited to announce that the third video for our "Beyond the Stories" series, funded by @HlthResearchBC will be released on November 7th! This video follows the ups and downs of Carly Allen’s cancer journey as a two time vulvar cancer survivor & ostomy advocate.
Register for our upcoming Research Rounds Presentation by Dr. @AnnaGottschlich from @HPV_research, who will be presenting her work on "Long term Colposcopy Referral Rates after the Introduction of HPV-based Cervix Screening" ⏩: https://t.co/PqH3vQf3vX
GCI Patient Partner @NancyCleveland is proud to have participated in a ovarian cancer clinical trial for PARP inhibitors. In our latest article, Nancy shares her experience with clinical trials at BC Cancer. Check out our Q&A session with Nancy here ⏩: https://t.co/eKK3bf901F
I am really humbled and honored to receive Michael Smith Health Research Trainee Award 2022 @HlthResearchBC Alhamdulillah! 🎉 Thanks to my amazing mentors @YvetteDrew and Dr. David Huntsman for their continuous guidance and support 🙏🏻
https://t.co/Wdw6aTwPHc
@GCI_Cluster
We are excited to announce the launch of Season 3 GOSH podcast! For the first episode, we invited our patient partners Nicole, Siv, and Nancy, who helped us to build the educational resource for gynecological cancer patients, Patient Journey Map.
Tune in⏩https://t.co/3w5OOK2ZFL
Participate in #GynecologicCancerAwareness Month with #ColoursForChange! Take a photo of you wearing any of the gyne cancer colours and share it with us to be featured in the GCI’s annual GCAM collage 📸
Tag us in your photos and use #ColoursForChange to participate! 😄
In honor of #GynecologicCancerAwarenessMonth, check out our latest blog article covering all you should know about gynecologic cancers!
Read here ⏩: https://t.co/gVxXOGQzhO
Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦
There has been so much amazing work done in the gynecologic cancer space in Canada!
We’d love to highlight some Canadian accomplishments in this thread and you’re welcome to add some as well! 🤗
#HappyCanadaDay#GynecologicCancer