Gerry Rogers, filmmaker, politician, and breast cancer survivor, began filming her experience with breast cancer, from the moment her hair started falling out from chemotherapy, creating the Gemini-award winning film “My Left Breast.” Gerry speaks with humour and kindness to audiences that have gone through, or are going through similar ordeals, who are helping loved…
Each year the NCF teams up with BM Metals to run “Scrap Cancer” an initiative where BM Metals sets up bins in several locations in our community and the public can drop off their scrap metal and electronic waste. At the end of the campaign, BM Metals donates the value of the scrap. Check out…
Cancer research is one of the key pillars that the Northern Cancer Foundation (NCF) and Health Sciences North (HSN) is built upon – and the NCF is once again ensuring that research at the Northeast Cancer Centre (NECC) flourishes. Each year, the NCF accepts grant applications from the Health Sciences North Research Institute (HSNRI) Scientists.…
Starting today, you can Screw Cancer and Give Hope in your local community by purchasing the Screw Cancer™ screwdriver in support of the Northern Cancer Foundation. The Screw Cancer™ campaign is partnering with the Northern Cancer Foundation in Sudbury, as well as Prostate Cancer Canada, Juravinski Hospital and Cancer Centre (Hamilton, ON), Thunder Bay Regional…
Today, at a press conference at Kivi Park, the Northern Cancer Foundation (NCF) put their first snowshoe forwad to announce the launch of the 2nd annual Trek for Cancer snowshoe fun run, which will be taking place on Sunday, March 5, 2017. This year’s ‘Trek for Cancer” snowshoe fun run will be a great day…
Congratulations to Milt Boren of Seagrove, Nova Scotia – the winner of the Hogs For Hope Motorcycle Raffle! We remember when Milt and his buddies from NS were joking with us that it would be funny if one of them won the bike – this is very poetic! What a way to kick off the…
There are a great many communities in Northeastern Ontario that pledged support for the Sam Bruno P.E.T. Scan Fund in the past several years to help the P.E.T. Steering Committee and the Northeast Cancer Centre acquire a P.E.T. scanner in Sudbury, and with the final funding announcement made last week, those pledges are starting to…
The Northern Cancer Foundation is very excited to announce that the Sam Bruno P.E.T. Scan Fund has reached its fundraising goal for the PET Scan. The Northern Cancer Foundation has received two anonymous donations of $500,000 each, for a total of $1 Million, in support of the Sam Bruno P.E.T. Scan Fund. “The Sam…
I had the chance to sit down with Dr. Carly Buckner, one of our cancer researchers about an interesting project she’s been running at home. Stack Brewing is a big supporter and friend of ours in the community so when I read that they were in the process of brewing a 100% Northern Ontario beer,…
The students of Lockerby Composite School braved the brisk evening yesterday and raised over $45,000 as part of their annual Kids Caring for Kids Cancer Drive. This brings the 21 year total of the fundraising blitz to over $845,000! All funds raised by the Kids Caring for Kids Cancer Drive supports Pediatric Oncology at the…