Leading the way in cancer research

CCS research impact report 2024/25 

Words on screen: Last year, your support helped fund groundbreaking cancer research with the potential to improve cancer care at home and around the world. Because of you, patients could benefit from more personalized and effective cancer treatment.

[Dr Geneviève Debois appears on screen.]

Dr Deblois: And we're trying to understand why in some patient cancer cells respond to therapy while in other patients cells don't respond.

Words on screen: They are receiving care that helps them live fuller, healthier lives.

[Dr Arielle Elkrief and Dr Bertrand Routy appear on screen.]

Words on screen: One month after we started the immunotherapy – and of course he had had his fecal transplant one week before he started his immunotherapy – he no longer needed the cane. He was walking normally and he was able to work and really was living a normal life.

Words on screen: and more cancers are being caught before they even begin.

[Dr Elijah Van Houten appears on screen.]

Dr Van Houten: We’re building a bra to detect breast cancer. So what we're doing is we're developing an imaging modality that's called elastography, where we take an image of how stiff tissue is and we're adapting that to a bra format so that we can detect stiff lesions inside the breast because breast cancers are typically very stiff compared to the surrounding tissue.

Words on screen: Your generosity helped launch 121 clinical trials, offering new hope and potentially life-saving treatments for thousands of people facing cancer.

[Dr Islam Elkholi appears on screen.]

Dr Elkholi: Eventually every, every drug that was approved right now went through clinical trials. Without clinical trials without, we wouldn't be able to bridge this gap.

[Dr Joel Pearson appears on screen.]

Dr Pearson: Without it, without those clinical trials, you're not going to develop those new treatments. You're not going to get them to the stage where they need to go to  be able to help people.

Words on screen: Your donations are supporting the best cancer research in Canada.

[Dr Geneviève Debois appears on screen.]

Dr Deblois: Government funding is limited, which is why organizations such as the Canadian Cancer Society play a crucial role in bridging that gap and helping us to implement our projects.

[Dr Josie Ursini-Siegel appears on screen.]

Dr Ursini-Siegel: Donating monthly to the Canadian Cancer Society, has the potential to significantly increase our capacity for research breakthroughs.

Words on screen: Together, we are creating a world where hope and progress go hand in hand.

[Cynthia Mitchell, patient partner, appears on screen.]

Cynthia: You know, I often talk about that there are these unexpected gifts along this journey and I, I really look at donors like one of those gifts. It's just such a blessing to know that there are people out there who care enough to give what they can and to be a part be a part of something bigger than they are.

[Dr Linda Carlson appears on screen.]

Dr Carlson: Thank you for providing this opportunity and the vision for us to really make and profound change and a difference in the lives of people suffering from advanced cancer.

Words on screen: To take on cancer, it takes all of us. Learn more at cancer.ca.

[The Canadian Cancer Society logo and the words “It takes a society” appear on  screen.]