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My Story…
On October 18, I will once again be dragging my butt to Downtown Toronto and forcing this aging carcass to run 5K - not because I enjoy ruining a perfectly good Saturday morning sleep-in but, to raise funds for Fanconi Canada, a grassroots charity supporting medical research into understanding and treating Fanconi anemia, its related cancers and complications. FA is an inherited disease that can affect all systems of the body and causes bone marrow failure, leukemia and solid tumor cancers.
I am participating in memory of the too many Canadian children and young adults, including my son Aaron, whose life, like too many others was cut short by FA. There is no cure for FA and no effective treatment for its associated cancers.
Fanconi Canada has committed over $400,000 to support the work of the BC Cancer Agency as part of the Fanconi Anemia Cancer Consortium (FACC), an international collaborative partnership between the FA community and a network of clinicians and physician scientists who have expertise in the diagnosis and management of FA cancers and FA cancer research.
We are asking for your help to continue Fanconi Canada's important work. Your tax-deductible donation will help advance the search for better treatments for FA. Please give generously - every dollar counts.
Thank you for your support,
Lorne
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Donate to help [participant] raise funds for Fanconi Canada to advance research in Canada into effective treatments for Fanconi anemia and related cancers.
Fanconi Canada has committed over $400,000 to support the work of the BC Cancer Agency as part of the Fanconi Anemia Cancer Consortium (FACC), a collaborative partnership between the FA community and a network of clinicians and physician scientists who have expertise in the diagnosis and management of FA cancers and FA cancer research.
Fanconi Canada also co-sponsored the 2023 Scientific Symposium in Vancouver in September. The Symposium focusses on five key areas relevant to FA research: gene therapy, bone marrow failure, DNA repair, manifestations of FA that affect quality of life, and cancer.
Recent donors
| Donation date | Donor name | Donation amount |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 29 | Anonymous | $54.63 |
| Sep 29 | Ray & Louise Walsh | $108.31 |
| Sep 28 | Howard Sandler | $108.31 |
| Sep 28 | Riki Turofsky and Charles Petersen | $537.69 |
| Sep 28 | Ross W | Undisclosed amount |
| Sep 28 | Sandra Secord | Undisclosed amount |
| Sep 28 | Tracy Cohen | $108.31 |
| Sep 28 | Michael Teitelbaum | $136.22 |
| Sep 28 | Tony & Maria | $1,074.41 |
| Sep 08 | Visnja Jovanovic | $50.00 |
