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About the Windsor & Essex County Cancer Centre Foundation (the Foundation)
The Windsor & Essex County Cancer Centre Foundation is an independent, community-based and volunteer-
community, which has enabled the purchase of equipment, including state-of-the-art MRI and CT scanners and
enhancements at the Windsor Regional Cancer Centre, as well as at the Ontario Breast Screening Program and the
Oncology Floor of Windsor Regional Hospital. Funds are also used to assist cancer patients in need. One hundred per
cent of all funds raised are used in and for the Windsor-Essex community.
About Seeds4Hope
The Windsor & Essex County Cancer Centre Foundation believes that all advances in cancer care and prevention are
rooted in research, leading to exciting discoveries as to how certain cancers may be prevented, new and innovative
diagnostic tools, emerging and promising treatments, as well as many other research topics that address the impacts of
cancer in our community. Because of this belief, the Foundation established Seeds4Hope, an ongoing research grants
program developed and administered by Dr. Michael Dufresne to provide awards of up to $80,000 over two years to
support and encourage locally-based, new and innovative cancer research. It incorporates the same rigorous policies
and criteria used by established granting agencies including external peer-review and scrutiny by the Foundation’s
Research Grants Advisory Committee.
The Windsor & Essex County Cancer Centre Foundation is an independent, community-based and volunteer-
community, which has enabled the purchase of equipment, including state-of-the-art MRI and CT scanners and
enhancements at the Windsor Regional Cancer Centre, as well as at the Ontario Breast Screening Program and the
Oncology Floor of Windsor Regional Hospital. Funds are also used to assist cancer patients in need. One hundred per
cent of all funds raised are used in and for the Windsor-Essex community.
About Seeds4Hope
The Windsor & Essex County Cancer Centre Foundation believes that all advances in cancer care and prevention are
rooted in research, leading to exciting discoveries as to how certain cancers may be prevented, new and innovative
diagnostic tools, emerging and promising treatments, as well as many other research topics that address the impacts of
cancer in our community. Because of this belief, the Foundation established Seeds4Hope, an ongoing research grants
program developed and administered by Dr. Michael Dufresne to provide awards of up to $80,000 over two years to
support and encourage locally-based, new and innovative cancer research. It incorporates the same rigorous policies
and criteria used by established granting agencies including external peer-review and scrutiny by the Foundation’s
Research Grants Advisory Committee.
- During the period 1974-1976, the 5-year survival rate among adults for all cancers combined was 50%. The 5-
year survival rate for all cancers combined is now approximately 65%.
- The 5-year survival rate for all childhood cancers combined was less than 50%; today it is nearly 80%.
- For the five most common cancers, the 5-year survival rates were: breast, 75%; colon, 50%; lung, 13%;
prostate, 68%; and rectum, 49%. As of 2001, the 5-year survival rates for the five most common cancers were:
breast, 90%; colon, 65%; lung, 16%; prostate, 100%; and rectum, 65%.
- Clinical investigation of combination chemotherapy, using multiple drugs with different mechanisms of action,
in the treatment of cancer was just beginning. Combination chemotherapy is now standard in the treatment of
many cancers and has contributed to increasing survival and cure rates.
- Clinical studies of anticancer vaccines (treatment or prevention) and of drugs to prevent cancer had not yet
begun; today two vaccines have been approved that have the potential to prevent some forms of liver cancer
and approximately 70% of cervical cancers. Other treatment vaccines are being evaluated in large-scale
clinical trials, including vaccines for the treatment of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, melanoma, kidney cancer,
multiple myeloma, and prostate cancer.
And there are more, including: a) new treatment therapies that target specific molecular changes that cause cells to
spread, b) refined radiation therapy techniques which are designed to deliver high doses of radiation to tumors while
minimizing the doses delivered to nearby healthy tissue, and c) effective therapies to control the side effects of cancer
and its treatment including pain, nausea, vomiting, and many more. And what about the amazing advances in the
quality of all aspects of cancer care - administration (e.g., comprehensive programs), state-of-the-art technology
(diagnostic and treatment), the positive cancer centre environment, the volunteers, hospices and palliative care
specialists, the well-being of the patient, family members and their dedicated team of caregivers?
Losing the battle against cancer? Absolutely not!
In the coming years, fewer people will be diagnosed with cancer through more effective prevention interventions, more
types of cancers will be cured through early detection and more effective treatment options. Even people dying from
cancer will live longer lives with more quality. In the past thirty years we have moved from the concept of “dying from
cancer” to “living with cancer”; what was once viewed as a terminal disease is more and more being viewed as a
chronic one.
And what is the basis of this progress in cancer care? The current state of cancer care in all its tangible forms is a result
of advances made through research we invested in during the past.
And what is the basis for future progress in cancer care? The progress we hope to realize in the future will be a result of
the advances made through research we invest in today. To put it another way, research can be viewed as the seed for
all advances in cancer care – the fruit, so to speak. No seed, no fruit. No cancer research, no advances in cancer care.
The Foundation’s message to you is simple. To continue winning the fight against cancer, keep planting the seeds;
consider donating to Seeds4Hope.
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| Admission: $6.00 per person or $10.00 for a weekend pass A portion of the proceeds will go to support the Seeds 4 Hope program at the Windsor Cancer Centre |
Cancer is not a single disease; it is the general term we use to describe a large
number of different types of cancer that can arise from the many different cell
types at different stages of cell maturity within the different system and organ
structures making up our complex human make-up and environment. Because
of this complexity, finding an effective treatment or cure for all cancers is
generally viewed as an improbable dream. This reality and the grim cancer
reports in the media can lead to the perception that the billions of dollars we
have invested in cancer research have been for naught - that we are actually
number of different types of cancer that can arise from the many different cell
types at different stages of cell maturity within the different system and organ
structures making up our complex human make-up and environment. Because
of this complexity, finding an effective treatment or cure for all cancers is
generally viewed as an improbable dream. This reality and the grim cancer
reports in the media can lead to the perception that the billions of dollars we
have invested in cancer research have been for naught - that we are actually
losing the fight against cancer. This perception is wrong and masks the significant signs of progress that have been
made in every aspect of cancer care in North America over the last 30 years, as indicated from the following statistics
from the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Maryland) database:
made in every aspect of cancer care in North America over the last 30 years, as indicated from the following statistics
from the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Maryland) database: