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Dr. James Lim and Dr. Phillip Lange appeared on Mornings with Simi on Global News to discuss their research into a new cancer treatment for young people fighting untreatable forms of the disease.

BC Children’s Hospital investigators Dr. James Lim and Dr. Phillip Lange appeared on CTV News to discuss a new strategy to find a therapy for hard-to-treat childhood cancers. 

Listen to BC Children’s Hospital investigators Dr. James Lim and Dr. Phillip Lange explain new progress to quickly find personalized treatments for young cancer patient on CBC’s On The Coast with Gloria Macarenko.

Unlike adult cancers, which are often linked to lifestyle and environmental risk factors, the cause of many childhood cancers remains unknown.

Researchers at BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute (BCCHR) and the University of British Columbia (UBC) have made a key discovery about how childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) evolves and responds to targeted therapies.

Dr. Gregor Reid has been awarded funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF) for for the BRAvE Initiative.

The BRAvE team seeks to increase the number of children who can benefit from treatments targeted at attributes of individual tumours, battle hard-to-treat cancers, and reduce long-term health impacts.

“There is nothing more we can do to cure your child’s cancer.” Patrick Sullivan can’t get that moment from 15 years ago out of his head. By then, his son Finn had been through chemotherapy, numerous surgeries, radiation and specialized treatments in Boston and Spokane.

The Better Responses through Avatars and Evidence (BRAvE) Initiative at BC Children’s Hospital is using cutting-edge research to revolutionize precision treatments for children with cancer.