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My Story…
On October 17, I will once again be dragging my butt to Downtown Toronto and forcing these officially senior legs 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 tumour 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 and allow us to renew our support of the work of the BC Cancer Agency. 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 24 | Eva and Michael | CA$269.32 |
| Sep 24 | J.J. Earle-Miller | Undisclosed amount |
| Sep 24 | Koskie Minsky LLP team | CA$400.00 |
| Sep 24 | Tony & Laura | CA$215.65 |
| Sep 24 | Robert Potts | CA$215.65 |
| Sep 24 | MAYLEX LITIGATION | Undisclosed amount |
| Sep 24 | Louis Covens | CA$215.65 |
| Sep 24 | Ray & Louise Walsh | CA$108.31 |
| Sep 24 | The Mack Family | CA$54.63 |
| Sep 24 | Michael Teitelbaum | CA$108.31 |
