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RESEARCH TO HELP PATIENTS WHOSE CANCERS RESIST THERAPY

VANCOUVER - One of Canada's foremost nuclear medicine researchers is developing new methods and drugs to diagnose and treat cancer under a partnership between the Province, the BC Cancer Agency, the BC Cancer Foundation and UBC.

April 7, 2009

Ministry: Small Business, Technology and Economic Development

Theme: Education and Literacy, Healthy Living

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	Minister Ida Chong tours lab at BC Cancer Agency Research Centre with Dr. François Bénard (standing), the new B.C. Leadership Chair in Functional Cancer Imaging. Seated is PhD student Simon Authier.	342.0 kb
	From left: Denise Turner, PHSA; Martha Salcudean, LEEF; Minister Chong; François Bénard; Brian Schmidt, BCCA; Pat Jacobsen, BCCF; John Hepburn, UBC; MLA Richard Lee.	386.9 kb
	Instrument specialist John Fee shows Minister Chong some of the equipment that is used by Dr. François Bénard in the lab at the BC Cancer Agency Research Centre.	451.1 kb

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