Special Talk Recap: Critical Career Readiness Skills

We were pleased to host a well-attended Special Talk on Thursday, July 24 as part of our Summer Student Get-together Series. The session brought together students, trainees, recent graduates, and department members interested in exploring career paths.

The talk "Critical Career Readiness Skills," explored how today’s evolving job landscape calls for adaptable and transferable skills.

Exploring inequities in access to life-saving genetic testing for patients with advanced ovarian cancer

A pan-Canadian research team led by Dr. Helen McTaggart-Cowan, a BC Cancer scientist, will receive $183,500 through a new Patient Voices in Research Initiative from the Terry Fox Research Institute’s Marathon of Hope Cancer Centres Network (the Network) to examine barriers to accessing homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) testing for patients with advanced ovarian cancer.

New study explores patient preferences to improve data sharing for precision oncology across Canada

In a new study, a team led by Dr. Dean Regier, Senior Scientist in Cancer Control at BC Cancer and co-chair of the MOHCCN Health Technology Assessment Working Group, conducted focus groups with individuals with lived and living experience with cancer to understand their values, expectations, and concerns for enhanced data sharing.

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