Thanks to the extraordinary generosity of our community, we have less than 2% to go before we reach our HERE is Where Cancer Meets its Match Campaign goal.
In this final phase, your support will ensure access to leading edge cancer diagnostics and treatment for patients, enabling faster results, better experiences, and more individualized care.
Help us cross the finish line and ensure patients in our communities can continue to receive leading edge cancer care, close to home.
Our Campaign
Southlake’s Regional Cancer Centre has served our communities with distinction for over a decade. However, with our population expanding and aging at a rapid rate, demand for care is increasing like never before. We must grow our capacity to minimize wait times because for cancer care, time is of the essence. We must also keep up with technological advances — we cannot face tomorrow’s challenges with yesterday’s methods in the fight against cancer. We face a tipping point. There’s where you come in.
We launched our HERE is Where Cancer Meets its Match Campaign to expand our spaces, build new capacity and bring the latest technology to the Cancer Centre, ensuring our talented clinicians can deliver the best care — and the best chance for our patients to survive their cancer — right here. With our community’s investment, we can keep care close to home.
Because of Donors
Donor support has already strengthened care for thousands of patients facing cancer closer to home at Southlake Health, including the following milestones:
- Upgrading three replacement Linear Accelerators (LINACs) for radiation therapy, including the addition of Canada’s first Elekta Harmony LINAC (the newest model of radiation treatment machine). A fifth LINAC was also added to Southlake’s fleet to meet the accelerated demand for care. These upgrades eliminated wait-times for radiation therapy at Southlake.
- Acquiring the first-ever PET-CT scanner in York Region, ensuring Southlake patients no longer need to travel considerable distances to other hospitals downtown or private clinics to access this advanced diagnostics. The PET-CT scanner enabled clinical teams to complete over 5,500 studies in its first two years in operation.
- Replacing one of Southlake’s MRI machine with a new, state-of-the-art model. This new MRI, which accepted its first patient in June of this year, will provide 8,000 scans annually. Moreover, advances in MRI technology mean that its replacement will produce faster, more high-quality images, as well as provide more comfortable patient experiences.
- Establish molecular genetic testing at Southlake by supporting an Ion Torrent™ Genexus™ Sequencer. Next generation sequencing (NGS) examines the genes that drive cancer cells to reproduce at the molecular level. It supports numerous new precision therapies that are revolutionizing cancer treatment.
Southlake is Creating the Cancer Care you Deserve
We see a tomorrow where the demand for leading edge cancer care is greater than ever. Facing this challenge requires not only expanding our capacity to deliver care but also introducing new advanced technology to transform care. Ultimately, our goal is to ensure that every patient — like Jamie, Melanie, Alyssa, Bill and Elizabeth — when facing the battle of their lives, exhausted, anxious and ill, never have to travel to access the leading edge cancer care they need.
We know that cancer hits close to home. Care should too.
“Patients and their families often tell us that they want to receive their cancer care closer to home, but they also want to have confidence that the care is equivalent to what they would receive downtown. Your support enables the clinical experts at our Regional Cancer Centre to access state-of-the-art technology and facilities, providing our communities with the best possible cancer diagnosis and treatment options.”
— Dr. Alisha Kassam, Physician Leader, Southlake’s Regional Cancer Centre
Questions? Contact us at foundation@southlake.ca
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Get to know our top-ranked program
Southlake’s Regional Cancer Centre is consistently ranked one of the top three in Ontario and is the first partner of the Princess Margaret Cancer Care Network. Click here to read more.
