WATCH: A major corporate donor has stepped up to become the biggest donor to the new Arthur Child Comprehensive Cancer Centre in Calgary. Doug Vaessen has the details.“It is a big donation of $5 million to this cancer care facility,” Anderson said. “It’s emotional because we have staff right now that are dealing with cancer. And to know they are going to get world-class care, that’s what’s so important to me.
“Why cancer clinical trials are so important is not only does it offer treatments today to patients, when maybe other traditional treatment options have failed, but also how you propel cancer treatments forward,” Beauchesne said. “It’s through that research is this treatment better than that treatment.”Dr.
“Everybody comes into this with the same ambition, that they are going to fight it and they are going to win, and they are not going to succumb to it,” Warmington said. “I think that is so much of the battle. I think more and more places like this will help support that.”The new Arthur Child Cancer Centre is expected to open in the fall. With 1.3-million square-feet it will be seven times the size of the Tom Baker Cancer Centre, which Morris says was too small even as it opened in 1999.