Centennial College fundraiser
On March 17th, a group of Centennial College ECE students held a childhood cancer awareness event and fundraiser at the College to...
Mar 20, 2017
Antibody shows promise in 5 kinds of childhood brain cancer
Stanford researchers have found that a recently developed antibody reduced the size of five different types of tumors in mouse models of...
Mar 16, 2017
Fundraiser for OPACC on March 17th!
A group of Early Childhood Education students at Centennial College are hosting this fundraiser to benefit OPACC at Centennial College's...
Mar 10, 2017
Early deaths from childhood cancer up to 4 times more common than previously reported
Treatments for childhood cancers have improved to the point that 5-year survival rates are over 80 percent. However, one group has failed...
Mar 7, 2017
Childhood cancer survivors benefit from reduced radiation treatment
The rate of second malignancies in survivors of childhood cancer is declining — an improvement linked to reduced radiation treatment of...
Mar 1, 2017
Pregnancy in survivors of childhood cancer may confer elevated risk for cardiotoxicity
Pregnancy may be linked to an increased risk for cardiotoxicity in patients who survived cancer in childhood, according to a research...
Feb 21, 2017
North York doctor tells late son’s story to help patients
Pegah Shahriaree advises parents they have right to look for answers Read more: http://torontoobserver.ca/2017/02/14/north-york-doctor-te...
Feb 15, 2017
Donated umbilical cord blood means babies can help save lives
It’s a lifesaving treatment that has the potential to treat or cure 80 different diseases, including cancer. As Allison Vuchnich explains...
Feb 13, 2017
Researchers Discover Sugar-Addiction of Cancer Cells in Childhood Leukemia
An international team of researchers led by City of Hope’s Markus Müschen, M.D., Ph.D., the Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation Endowed...
Feb 13, 2017
OPACC receives major donation
Today OPACC was honoured to have received a very generous donation of $40,000 from Catarino House! Catarino House was a Hamilton-based...
Feb 9, 2017