Canadian Cancer Society
419 St Clair St N7L 3K4 Chatham, ON, Canada

Hello all, our Windsor Run for the Cure committee is looking for help this weekend. If anyone can help volunteer please reach out to Christina.

Thank you Jennifer for supporting CCS. Good luck! https://www.cbc.ca//jennifer-botterill-and-eric-radford-1.

This month participating dealerships, auto groups and services centres will be joining together in raising funds for Breast Cancer Awareness and Research through our Drive Pink campaign. We have over 115 locations participating nationwide who are proud supporters of this campaign. Please visit https://bit.ly/3lQF9O8 to find a participating location near you. #BreastCancerAwareness #DrivePink

Cancer can change everything, but it doesn’t have to define who you are. Because life is bigger than your diagnosis. Bigger than chemo. Bigger than the scars. Life is about who you’re with and celebrating every moment we share with those we love. It’s about memories that live on, even if the ones we love are no longer with us. Life is bigger than cancer.

October is breast cancer awareness month. Did you know that 1 in 8 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime? Saints, it's time to come together ...and support this cause. We have just added Saints Fight Cancer swag to our online shop with all proceeds going towards the Canadian Cancer Society - Chatham-Kent! Shop here https://www.stclair-tsi.ca/shop

Count down to Run day is on. We have many runners from all over as a part of the Chatham Kent Run for the Cure, Chatham, Wallaceburg, Blenheim, Sarnia, Corunna..., Bright's Grove, Camlachie, Leamington. Here are a few run routes one of our volunteers put together to help you pick a 1 or 5 KM route that may work for you. Please remember to follow the social distancing guidelines . These are only sample routes, and will not be marked as official Run routes so please use at own risk. If you have a run route to share please take a screen shot and share. Happy Run Week! See more

Immunotherapy research update: Cancer-killing viruses supercharge immunotherapy A CCS-funded study has shown pairing cancer-killing viruses with a type of immunotherapy can eliminate tumours and spark a long-term immune system response. In adoptive T-cell therapy (ACT), a person’s immune cells are taken out and modified to specifically target their cancer and then given back to them as a treatment. While ACT has been successful in some cancers, it remains ineffective against... the majority of common solid tumours. With the support of a CCS Innovation Grant, Dr Yonghong Wan and his team showed that combining cancer-killing viruses with ACT significantly increased the immunotherapy’s effectiveness. The specially designed viruses worked through a push-pull mechanism they pushed the cancer-targeting T-cells to multiply and pulled them into the core of tumour. In animal models, this combination approach eliminated tumours and led to a long-term anti-tumour response from the immune system. Further, these results were achieved without preconditioning, a toxic process that patients typically have to undergo before receiving ACT. These findings bring this promising immunotherapy one step closer to being a more effective and safe treatment for more people with cancer. See more

Canadian Cancer Society doing Great work during COVID times. Check this out. https://bit.ly/NewClinicalTrialCovid

Join the Canadian Cancer Society on Saturday, June 13 from 7:00 - 9:00 PM ET! Relay participants across Canada will come together to Relay At Home, our re-imagi...ned virtual Relay event that you can enjoy from the comforts of home. With interactive activities and time to celebrate survivors and remember those we’ve lost, Relay At Home will show Canadians that no one in our communities must face cancer alone. Visit our website to sign up if you haven't already, and see our full schedule and entertainment line up: https://bit.ly/37jfVlc See more

Jamie Lynn Thomson is not letting Covid 19 stop her from getting us warmed up for Relay at Home. Come on Chatham Kent, join Jamie Lynn. Thanks Jamie Lynn for your ongoing support! https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/

We are down to only hours until Relay at Home. Make sure to take pictures and share them everywhere using #RelayatHome . Thanks to everyone for all your hard work and dedication to Relay.

We are grateful to sponsors like Lloyd's for continuing to support #RelayForLife. Thank you for your dedication to Canadians touched by cancer. We look forward to relaying at home with our supporters across the country this Saturday.

Tonight we celebrate our Survivors for Chatham, Saria & Essex County Relays. Stand and congratulate them from afar. Survivors wear your yellow survivor shirts with pride and listen for your name to be read out. Take a selfie or video and add it to the comments. We Relay because of you.

We are committed to change now, and in the future. Systemic racism impacts the people we serve, the research we fund, and the experiences of employees, volun...teers and supporters of the Canadian Cancer Society. There are deep disparities in cancer risk, cancer care and in cancer research, with life and death consequences that cannot be ignored. We acknowledge the experiences of the Black community and we know that positive change requires listening, learning and meaningful action. We have a responsibility to question our approaches and have created a plan for our first steps. This is an important journey that we are committed to not only in this moment of global uprising, but in the future too. You can learn more about what we’re doing, and we welcome your comments on how we can continue to better demonstrate our support for all Canadians and the voices of Black, Indigenous and people of colour: https://bit.ly/3hgqeLz Together, we stand with the Black community. #BlackLivesMatter

What theme laps does your team have planned for Relay at Home? Share your ideas we would love to hear all about them. Share them using #relayathome