by Yasmina Seifeddine | Apr 17, 2021 | Awareness, Club Stuff, Event, Healthy Living, Initiatives, News
April is Canada’s Daffodil Month, a month about raising awareness for cancer all around. It is during this Daffodil Campaign that the Canadian Cancer Society (CCS) and organizations brings Canadians together to commemorate and remember those who battled against...
by Krystle Sievert | Feb 5, 2021 | Awareness, Healthy Living, storiesofhope
This blog post has been written in the perspective of two time cancer survivor, Vanessa Delle Monache. Follow along her story as she is diagnosed with both Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and breast cancer and learns to overcome both diseases and share her Story of Hope for...
by Yasmina Seifeddine | Jan 25, 2021 | Healthy Living, Initiatives
At UBC Cancer Association, promoting health awareness and wellbeing beyond the physical aspect is at the top of our priorities. Spreading awareness about mental health issues is needed in order to break down age-old stigmas and stereotypes that prevent people from...
by Aysan | Nov 6, 2020 | Healthy Living, News, Series, Stories for UBCCA
As Movember approaches, a memory came to my mind, one of a friend frantically calling me one day and trying to cope with an incident she experienced earlier that morning: “I had just woken up to go for a run, taking a route across Lions Gate Bridge. Halfway...
by Yasmina Seifeddine | Oct 31, 2020 | Healthy Living, News, storiesofhope
Earlier this month, UBC CA gave you the low down on Breast Cancer and its history. But what is often lost in the mix is the individuality of each case of breast cancer and how personal it can get. This easily happens because the faceless statistics and massive numbers...
by Aysan | Oct 23, 2020 | Healthy Living, News, Stories for UBCCA
Illustration by Nicole Nedeff The effects of the coronavirus on patients’ lives in hospitals, their treatments and communication with their doctors. “During the height of the COVID-19 crisis in New York, most hospitals in NYC essentially became COVID hospitals”. The...
