Breast cancer dominates too many lives.
Thanks to better screening and therapies, breast cancer isn’t the force it once was. Far fewer Canadian women die of the disease than they did 20 years ago. But it’s not enough: 5,000 Canadian women will succumb to this terrible disease this year alone.
The MUHC is championing three important priorities to not only save the lives of women with breast cancer, but enrich them.
Join us as we revolutionize breast cancer treatment and care.
Raise Craze 2021
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Dr. Sarkis Meterissian dyed his hair pink and shaved his head in dedication to the thousands of Montreal women diagnosed with breast cancer each year. The gesture not only raised over $300,000 to benefit the MUHC’s Breast Clinic Wellness Program, it allowed Dr. Meterissian to understand the pain of losing one’s hair, forging a new connection between him and his patients. From October 1st to 31st, 2021, Avon Foundation for Women Canada matched all gifts up to $100,000! Watch the video here.
OncoDrive
The discovery of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations in the early 1990s was a game-changer. We now know that women with faulty BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes have a much higher risk of getting breast cancer, and at an earlier age. At the RI-MUHC, Dr. Patrician Tonin is uncovering breast cancer’s remaining deadly secrets to ensure fewer women lose their lives to breast cancer.
MUHC Breast Clinic Wellness Program
For too many women, remission isn’t the victory it should be. After the anguish and anxiety of diagnosis. After treatments, side-effects and surgery, they are physically and emotionally depleted. The MUHC Breast Clinic Wellness Program is changing this with:
- Personalized support throughout the cancer journey
- Access to a nutritionist, exercise physiologist and sex therapist
- Education sessions on breast cancer treatment, coping with diagnosis and more
Metastatic Breast Cancer
Metastatic breast cancer occurs when the cancer spreads to other parts of the body. Dr. Peter Metrakos, Dr. Anthoula Lazaris and their team made the ground-breaking discovery that some metastatic breast cancer grows by taking over the body’s blood vessels. Now, they are studying ways to stop this blood vessel co-option to keep the cancer from spreading.
“We have become very good at the treatment part — so good that almost nine out of ten patients survive breast cancer. But these women have names, lives, families. They’re individuals. We must not only cure them so they will live. We must support them so they can once again thrive.”
-Dr. Sarkis Meterissian
Director of the MUHC Breast Clinic
Help Us Fight Breast Cancer
For more information, to make a donation or to get involved, please contact: Edith Bolduc, Associate Director of Development, Major Gifts, at 514-934-1934, ext. 34397, [email protected]