Recipients of BC Cancer Foundation 2024 Rising Stars Award competition announced
Congratulations to the recipients of the BC Cancer Foundation (BCCF) 2024 Rising Stars Award competition!
This year’s awardees are:
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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.
Increased screening rates could see cervical cancer eliminated within the next decade
A BC Cancer-authored paper in the Canadian Association Medical Journal (CAMJ) has concluded that, with increased HPV screening rates, cervical cancer can be eliminated in Canada by almost a decade earlier than the federal government target of 2040.
Dr. Helen McTaggart-Cowan has been appointed to Scientist in the Cancer Control Research department
Stuart Peacock, CCR department head, and Magali Coustalin, administrative manager, are very pleased to announce that Dr. Helen McTaggart-Cowan has been appointed to the role of Scientist in the department of Cancer Control Research. Dr. McTaggart-Cowan has been a valued member of the ARCC team in CCR since 2010. Her ongoing work is in the area of Health Services Research and Cancer Survivorship, and currently, she is developing a program with an overarching research aim to tailor health services to meet the diverse needs of cancer survivors.
Multi-Channel Content Based Image Retrieval Method for Skin Diseases Using Similarity Network Fusion and Deep Community Analysis
Congratulations, Yuheng Wang, for publishing his work on content-based image processing. This is the best AI system so far for automatically retrieving images with similar diagnoses from a database. The main contribution of the proposed system is that it can work with databases of multiple data types while avoiding the problem of dimensionality bias between different modalities.
Dr. Tim Lee appointed Interim Head of Cancer Control Research
Dr. Tim Lee has very kindly agreed to step in as Interim Head of Cancer Control Research. Dr. Lee will take over from July 1, 2022. We are all very grateful to Dr. Lee for offering his time and energy to this role, and the Operations Team and Scientists are looking forward to working with him.
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