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REPORT TO DONORS 2009

REALCHANGE

MAKING

HAPPEN

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REAL CHANGE – THANKS TO YOU

Lynn Jackson, Toronto Run captain

REAL CHANGE – THANKS TO YOU

The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation – Ontario

Region raised $16.7 million and allocated $10.6 million

to our charitable work. With your support, the Foundation

has become the largest dedicated funder of breast

cancer research in Canada and one of the largest in

the world.

• Over 70,000 participants in 20 Ontario communities

helped create a future without breast cancer at our

signature event, the 2008 Canadian Breast Cancer

Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure, raising a record

$12.9 million.

• We celebrated directing $50 million to breast cancer

research at Galaxy of Stars – an event where donors,

volunteers and stakeholders learned how Foundation

funding has advanced scientific research, clinical care

and community initiatives.

• On the research front, over $10 million in new

grants were awarded, and many breakthroughs

were announced including:

– Dynemo Biosystems, a new technology that may

help determine the best treatment options for breast

cancer patients and can predict with more than 80%

accuracy their chances of recovery.

– New evidence for performing diagnostic biopsies

on women with suspected recurring breast cancer

tumours to spare women unnecessary treatment

based on the characteristics of their original tumours.

• We introduced a new health promotion resource for

patients: Guiding Women Through a Breast Cancer

Diagnosis…a supportive and personal approach.

• And 2009 was the second year of Breast Cancer

Today: An Evening of Care & Community. We visited

five cities to talk with breast cancer patients and

their families about advances in breast cancer

research and share opportunities for support in

their communities.

Thanks to you, much has been achieved. But much

remains to be done in breast cancer prevention,

detection, diagnosis, treatment and care. We hope

this report and your own experience of the Foundation

inspire you to continue supporting us in the years

ahead. Together, we will create a future without

breast cancer. You are making real change happen.

SANDRA PALmARO

CEO

DEBORAH DUBENOFSKY

Chair, Board of Directors

THANKS TO YOU, OUR SUPPORTERS, REAL CHANGE IS HAPPENING – CHANGE THAT IS SAVING AND IMPROVING LIVES. THIS REPORT GIVES A FEW EXAMPLES OF WHAT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED WITH YOUR HELP.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS*Deborah Dubenofsky

Chair, Ontario Board

Shailendra Verma, MD

Vice-Chair, Ontario Board

Christy Teasdale

Vice-Chair, Ontario Board

Barry Yontef

Treasurer, Ontario Board

Jennifer Bell

Muriel Brackstone, MD

Barbara Budarick

Lynn Chappell

Bernadette Dietrich

Susan F. Goodman

Seema Hashmi

Roy Levine

Jose Ribau

Sarah Simpson

Gurmit Singh, PhD

Sandra Palmaro

CEO (Ex-Officio)

Beverly Thomson

Honorary Chair

*As of September 1, 2009

Tubbs/K2 snowshoeing event High school fundraiser Proud To Be Pink hockey coaches Female truckers for the cause Breast Cancer Today interactive forumGuelph volunteers Galaxy of Stars mike and Erin, CHFI Spirit Squad Valerie Bain, volunteer Toronto Run participant

TABLE OF CONTENTS

REAL CHANGE – THANKS TO YOU 1

THE mONEY: WHERE IT COmES FROm,

WHERE IT GOES 2

HOW THE FUNDING PROCESS WORKS 3

GUIDED BY EXPERTS 4

ADVANCES IN RESEARCH 8

THE NEXT GENERATION 12

SHARING KNOWLEDGE

WITH THE COmmUNITY 14

VOLUNTEERS: OUR BACKBONE 16

COmmUNITIES FOR THE CURE 18

mAKING A DIFFERENCE 28

GALAXY OF STARS 30

OUR DONORS AND SUPPORTERS 32

STAFFING THE CAUSE 36

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THE MONEY: WHERE IT COMES FROM, WHERE IT GOES


HOW THE FUNDING PROCESS WORKS

CALL FOR PROPOSALS Scientific researchers, clinicians, graduate students

and collaborative, community-based research groups

across Ontario are invited to submit grant proposals.

In the fall of 2008, the Canadian Breast Cancer

Foundation – Ontario Region issued our Call for

Proposals by publishing information about grants on

our website and sending targeted e-communications

to individuals, institutions and organizations across

the province. All submissions are thoroughly and fairly

reviewed by experts in the appropriate fields.

Available grants fall into three categories: research

grants, fellowships and community-based research.

GUIDED BY THE PRINCIPLES OF TRANSPARENCY, FAIRNESS, ACCOUNTABILITY AND RIGOUR, THE CANADIAN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION PROVIDES FUNDING FOR WORK THAT WILL…

• INCREASE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT PREVENTION

• PROMOTE EARLY DETECTION

• IMPROVE TREATMENT OPTIONS AND OUTCOMES

• ENHANCE CARE AND qUALITY OF LIFE FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH BREAST CANCER

The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation – Ontario Region raised $17.4 million in the past year. Our largest

sources of revenue are the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure and fundraising events

hosted by individuals, communities and corporations. Substantial revenues also come from individual donations

and from donations made by corporations and employee groups. Last year the Foundation received donations

from companies and organizations in 564 Ontario communities. The Foundation’s average cost of fundraising

as a percentage of total revenues was 28.6 per cent, comparing favourably with the Canada Revenue Agency’s

optimal limit of no more than 35 per cent.

• The Research Project Grant Program supports

projects demonstrating scientific excellence,

innovation and the potential for real impact

on breast health and breast cancer.

• The Fellowship Program funds the training of

outstanding breast cancer researchers, clinicians

and other health professionals.

• The Community-Based Research Grant Program is

a new type of grant introduced in the fall of 2008. It

provides funding for collaborative teams to undertake

research using participatory methods with the overall

goal of reducing the burden of breast cancer. The

grant encourages the development of partnerships to

address the determinants of health and recommends

strategies for policy, practice and system change

across the breast cancer continuum. Projects in

this program focus on social, environmental and

behavioural factors in breast cancer.

GRANT-FUNDING PRIORITIES 2000–2009

Biology of Breast Cancer

Primary Prevention and Risk Factors

Psychosocial, Quality of Life and Outcomes

Treatment

Contributions to the Canadian Breast Cancer Research Alliance through the national Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation

Community Health Promotion

Early Detection, Diagnosis, Prognosis

Other

24%

19%

15%

13%

11%

11%

5% 2%

FALL 2008 CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Targeted communications 1,132

Number of institutions and organizations represented 433

APPLICATIONS AND AWARDS

RESEARCH GRANTS

Number reviewed 63 Number recommended 18 (29%) Dollar amount $6.7 million % of money requested 31%

FELLOWSHIPS


COmmUNITY RESEARCH


REVENUE march 31, 2009 march 31, 2008

DONATIONS AND EVENTS

Individual donations $ 475,674 $ 577,714

Direct mail 1,325,759 333,232

Corporate donations 905,828 773,957

Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure 12,905,225 12,528,065

Third-party events 1,122,184 1,286,159

Other special events 4,951 6,981

INVESTmENT INCOmE 638,240 865,591

TOTAL REVENUE 17,377,861 16,371,699

EXPENSES

Fundraising expenses 5,239,804 5,972,836

Operating expenses 1,318,051 1,015,025

TOTAL EXPENSES 6,557,855 6,987,861

NET REVENUE 10,820,006 9,383,839

CHARITABLE PROGRAmmING Health promotion programming 2,265,106 2,059,613

Research and community grants 8,362,026 9,510,902

TOTAL CHARITABLE PROGRAmmING 10,627,132 11,570,515

NET SURPLUS (DEFICIT) 192,874 (2,186,677)

CONSOLIDATED INCOME STATEMENT*Biology of Breast Cancer

Primary Prevention and Risk Factors

Psychosocial, Quality of Life and Outcomes

Treatment

Contributions to the Canadian Breast Cancer Research Alliance through the national Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation

Community Health Promotion

Early Detection, Diagnosis, Prognosis

Other

24%

19%

15%

13%

11%

11%

5% 2%

* The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation is audited on a consolidated national basis. Results for the Ontario Region are unaudited.


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GUIDED BY EXPERTS

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RESEARCH AND HEALTH CARE ADVISORY COmmITTEE 2008 - 2009

Shailendra Verma, MD – Chair

Christopher Mueller, PhD – Senior Advisor

Lisa Bitonti, RN

michelle Cotterchio, PhD

Craig Earle, mD

Karen Fergus, PhD

Ralph George, mD

Alexander Kiss, PhD

Jeffrey medin, PhD

Lise Paquet, PhD

Jean-Philippe Pignol, mD, PhD

Raymond Reilly, PhD

David Rodenhiser, PhD

Gurmit Singh, PhD

Jennifer Wiernikowski, RN

EACH YEAR, MORE THAN 100 BREAST CANCER AND RESEARCH SPECIALISTS FROM CANADA, THE UNITED STATES AND ELSEWHERE VOLUNTEER THEIR EXPERTISE TO MAKE SURE YOUR DOLLARS ARE PUT TO THE BEST USE. THANKS TO THEIR EXPERT ANALYSIS, THE FOUNDATION IS ABLE TO IDENTIFY AND SUPPORT THE MOST PROMISING NEW PROJECTS – ONES WITH THE POTENTIAL TO MAKE A REAL DIFFERENCE ACROSS THE WHOLE SPECTRUM OF BREAST CANCER, FROM PREVENTION, EARLY DETECTION AND DIAGNOSIS TO TREATMENT AND qUALITY OF LIFE FOR PATIENTS.

PUTTING PROPOSALS TO THE TEST: DR. SHAILENDRA VERmA

Dr. Verma is the RHCAC Chair, a

medical oncologist at the Ottawa

Hospital and one of Canada’s

leading breast cancer specialists.

He has been involved with the

Foundation for about nine years –

first as a grant recipient, then as

a grant reviewer, and in more recent years as Chair of

the multiple grant panels for basic and clinical research

and fellowships. He is also a fundraiser and a donor.

“What first drew me to the Foundation as a charitable

organization is its openness and transparency,” he

says. “The second thing is that it is totally oriented

toward improving the welfare of women.”

Dr. Verma says all grant proposals are put to the test

by posing five pragmatic questions: Is this idea really

new and innovative? Can it make a real difference

to women? Can the applicants do it well? Is theirs

a reliable institution where the funding will be used

effectively? Can we trust them with donors’ hard-

earned money? “These are the questions that open

every grant panel,” he says. For Dr. Verma, the

2008-09 application season was one of the most

exciting in his experience with the Foundation.

HEALTH PROmOTION ADVISORY COmmITTEE 2008 - 2009

Lynn Chappell, RN, BScN – Chair

Jan Angus, PhD

Jacqueline Bender, mSc, PhD (c)

Suzie Joanisse

Leslie Langdon, m.Ed., C. Psych.

Alison mcmullen

Linda muraca, RN, mHSc

Fran Odette, mSW

Lynn Roodbol

Loren Vanderlinden, PhD

REmOVING BARRIERS TO SCREENING AND CARE Jan Angus, RN, PhD

Health promotion research should

recognize the complex social and

geographical diversity of Ontario,

says Jan Angus, Associate Professor

at the University of Toronto,

Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of

Nursing, cross-appointed to Dalla

Lana Graduate School of Public Health. Dr. Angus is a

new member of the Health Promotion Advisory Committee

and a member of the Community-Based Research

Grant Review Panel. And her research into removing

barriers to cancer screening and timely care for women

with breast cancer will be invaluable when she reviews

applications for grants in this area. “I am sensitized

to issues around why some women do not feel as

comfortable as others in accessing the health-care

system,” says Dr. Angus. “That system is not always

user-friendly, and sometimes information is really hard

to decode – even if English is your first language.” For

her, health promotion programming means more than

translating pamphlets into other languages; it also

means reaching out to women who are physically

disadvantaged, unused to the Canadian health system

or living in remote communities. “Initiatives involving

community outreach would definitely be of interest to

this committee,” she says.

COmmUNITY-BASED RESEARCH GRANT REVIEW PANELRESEARCH PROJECTS ADDRESSING SOCIAL,

ENVIRONmENTAL, AND BEHAVIORAL FACTORS

ACROSS THE BREAST CANCER CONTINUUm USING

COLLABORATIVE, COmmUNITY-BASED, PARTICIPATORY

RESEARCH PRACTICES AND mETHODS

Lynn Chappell, RN, BScN – Chair

Jan Angus, PhD, University of Toronto

Nancy Dubois, Consultant

Lorna Dobi, m.Ed., Cancer Care Ontario

Denise Nepveux, PhD, York University

Kate Rossiter, PhD (c), University of Toronto

Loren Vanderlinden, PhD, Toronto Public Health

BUILDING COmmUNITY PARTNERSHIPSLynn Chappell, RN, BScN

Lynn Chappell, Director of

Cancer System Planning and

Performance, Erie-St. Clair

Regional Cancer Program, is a

performance- and accountability-

oriented director whose

professional focus is ensuring

that cancer patients receive timely and quality care

no matter where they live, and that “the experience

of patients and their families is as good as it can

be.” She brings more than 20 years’ experience in

community development, breast health and breast

cancer awareness to the chair’s role on both the Health

Promotion Advisory Committee and the Community-

Based Research Grant Review Panel. Herself a survivor

of the disease, she provides leadership to an annual

peer-review process that assesses community-based

research grant applications. Review criteria aim to

ensure that approved Foundation grants will indeed

make a difference at the community level. An important

criterion for her is that proposed projects will gather

evidence that will make a tangible difference in

“achieving the vision of a time when breast cancer

is no longer an issue.” Another priority that Chappell

values is building partnerships and sharing expertise.

“We don’t want people reinventing the wheel,” she says.


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RESEARCH PROJECT GRANT PROGRAM REVIEW PANELS PANEL ARESEARCH PROJECTS ADDRESSING THE BIOLOGY,

CAUSES AND ORIGINS, AND CHARACTERISTICS OF

BREAST CANCER TO INFORm FUTURE ADVANCES

IN BREAST CANCER SCREENING AND TREATmENT


The Ottawa Hospital Regional Cancer Centre

Gurmit Singh, MD, PhD – Vice-Chair

Juravinski Cancer Centre, Hamilton

Jeffrey Liu, PhD – Scientific Officer

University Health Network, Toronto

Benjamin Alman, mD, PhD, Robarts Research Institute

Stuart Berger, PhD, Toronto General Research Institute

Stephen Chia, mD, PhD, BC Cancer Research Centre

Edna Cukierman, PhD, Fox Chase Cancer Center

Gerarda Darlington, PhD, University of Guelph

michael Evans, PhD, University of Toronto

Erica A. Golemis, PhD, Fox Chase Cancer Center

John Hassell, PhD, mcmaster University

Alexander Kiss, PhD, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Rafal Kustra, PhD, University of Toronto

Robert Lafrenie, PhD, Hôpital Régional de Sudbury Regional

Wan Lam, PhD, BC Cancer Agency

Jonathan Lee, PhD, University of Ottawa

Brian Lichty, PhD, mcmaster University

Hu Liu, PhD, memorial University of Newfoundland

Jeffrey medin, PhD, University of Toronto

Wei-Ping min, mD, PhD, The University of Western Ontario

Kevin morris, PhD, The Scripps Research Institute

Garth Nicholas, mD, The Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre

Peter O’Brien, PhD, University of Toronto

Sujata Persad, PhD, University of Alberta

Snezana Popovic, mD, PhD, mcmaster University

David Ivan Rodenhiser, PhD, The University of Western Ontario

Andrew Shaw, PhD, University of Alberta

Therese Stukel, PhD, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences

Sean Young, PhD, BC Cancer Research Centre

PANEL BRESEARCH PROJECTS ADDRESSING CLINICAL CARE

AND SERVICES FOR BREAST CANCER INCLUDING

CLINICAL TRIALS





Renée Hanrahan, MD – Scientific Officer

St. Joseph’s Health Care, London

Noori Akhtar-Danesh, PhD, mcmaster University

Linlea Armstrong, mD, University of British Columbia

mario Cappelli, PhD, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario

Jean-michel Caudrelier, mD, The Ottawa Hospital Regional Cancer Centre

michelle Cotterchio, PhD, Cancer Care Ontario

Keyue Ding, PhD, Queen’s University

Craig Earle, mD, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Alexandra Easson, mD, Princess margaret Hospital/UHN

Samy El Sayed, mD, Ottawa Regional Cancer Centre

Warren Foster, PhD, mcmaster University

Ralph George, mD, St. michael’s Hospital

Ophira Ginsburg, mD, RS mcLaughlin Durham Regional Cancer Centre

Karen Harrison, PhD, Kingston General Hospital

Sean Hopkins, BSc, The Ottawa Hospital

Harriette Kahn, mD, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Alexander Kiss, PhD, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

mladen Korbelik, PhD, BC Cancer Agency

Colin mcCartney, mBChB, University of Toronto

Lisa mielniczuk, mD, University of Ottawa

Alexander H.G. Paterson, mD, Tom Baker Cancer Centre

michael Patterson, PhD, Juravinski Cancer Centre

Jean-Philippe Pignol, mD, PhD, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

may Lynn Quan, mD, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Jacqueline Spayne, mD, PhD, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Srikala Sridhar, mD, University Health Network

Richard Tozer, mD, PhD, Juravinski Cancer Centre

Dongsheng Tu, PhD, Queen’s University

Grace Yi, PhD, University of Waterloo

PANEL C RESEARCH PROJECTS ADDRESSING THE

PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL ImPACTS OF

BREAST CANCER AND CANCER CONTROL

Christopher Mueller, PhD – Chair

Queen’s Cancer Research Institute, Kingston

Karen Fergus, PhD – Vice-Chair

Faculty of Health, York University

Renée Hanrahan, MD – Scientific Officer

St. Joseph’s Health Care, London

Ardra Cole, EdD, University of Toronto

Susan Dent, mD, The Ottawa Hospital Regional Cancer Centre

Richard Doll, mSc, BC Cancer Agency

Ralph George, mD, St. michael’s Hospital

Carolyn Ingram, DNSc, mcmaster University

Christine mcPherson, PhD, University of Ottawa

Lise Paquet, PhD, Carleton University

Andrea Patenaude, PhD, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston

FEBRUARY/mARCH 2009

LOOKING FOR ORIGINALITY AND LOGIC Brian Lichty, PhD

When Brian Lichty, Assistant

Professor, Pathology and molecular

medicine, mcmaster University,

Hamilton, and a member of

Research Review Panel A, judges

a grant application, one of the

things he’s looking for is

originality. Although it’s important to verify the results

of previous research, says Dr. Lichty, “if something has

been done six times by several labs in different countries,

I don’t think we should be giving somebody money to

do it a seventh time – not when there’s another grant

in my pile that’s more original and is proposing

something new.” The proposed research also “has to

make sense, which is partly the writing and partly the

logic,” he adds. “The Foundation is also committed to

providing detailed feedback on applications that are

declined, which really helps young researchers hone

their skills to improve their chances of receiving

funding in future years.”

WILL IT ImPROVE PATIENTS’ LIVES? Jim Koropatnick, PhD

For molecular biologist Jim

Koropatnick, Director, Cancer

Research Laboratory Program,

Lawson Health Research Institute,

The University of Western

Ontario, London, who sat on

the Fellowship Program Review

Panel, a successful grant application does more than

add to the general body of knowledge about breast

cancer, it also has the potential to improve the lives

of patients. “If that new knowledge can’t be applied

either to preventing cancers or detecting cancers earlier

so they can be more effectively treated with existing

therapies – or if it does not have the potential to lead

to new treatments that are going to give a better

outcome for difficult-to-treat tumours – then it tends to

get a relatively low score,” says Dr. Koropatnick. “When

applicants give us that exciting careful analysis, we

know they’re thinking hard about how they’re going to

apply that information to better treatment. Those are

the superior grant applications.“

FELLOWSHIP PROGRAm REVIEW PANELSUPPORTING THE DEVELOPmENT OF EXPERTISE

IN BREAST CANCER BY INVESTING IN SPECIALIzED

ADVANCED TRAINING FOR A BROAD SPECTRUm

OF RESEARCH AND CLINICAL DISCIPLINES





Previn Dutt, PhD – Scientific Officer

University Health Network, Toronto

Christina Addison, PhD, Ottawa Health Research Institute

Lori Bernstein, PhD, University Health Network

Lisa Bitonti, BScN, RN, Bridgepoint Health

muriel Brackstone, mD, London Regional Cancer Program

Ronald Carter, PhD, D.V.m., mcmaster University

mark Clemons, mD, PhD, The Ottawa Hospital Regional Cancer Centre

Susan Done, PhD, Ontario Cancer Institute/PmH/UHN

Heather Dorman, mSc, mount Sinai Hospital

Tom Farrell, PhD, Juravinski Cancer Centre

michelle Ghert, mD, PhD, Juravinski Cancer Centre

Igor Jurisica, PhD, Princess margaret Hospital/UHN

mladen Korbelik, PhD, BC Cancer Agency & University of British Columbia

Jim Koropatnick, PhD, London Health Sciences Centre

Roger moorehead, PhD, University of Guelph

Som mukherjee, mD, Juravinski Cancer Centre

Janusz Rak, mD, PhD, montreal Children’s Hospital

Eileen Rakovitch, mD, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

michael Reedijk, PhD, mD, Princess margaret Hospital /UHN

Adonis Skandalis, PhD, Brock University

Leslie Sutherland, PhD, Sudbury Regional Hospital

marc Tischkowitz, mD, PhD, mcGill University

Jennifer Wiernikowski, RN, mSc, Juravinski Cancer Centre

David Wiljer, PhD, Princess margaret Hospital/UHN

James Woodgett, PhD, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, mount Sinai Hospital

Burton Yang, PhD, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

“ If something has been done six times by several labs in different countries, then I don’t think we should be giving somebody money to do it a seventh time.” – DR. BRIAN LICHTY

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Interestingly, the study found that the main sources

of variation in density in young women were the height

and weight of the individuals and the percentage of

dense tissue in their mothers’ breasts – all factors

that influence later risk of breast cancer. Variations

in density in young women were also associated with

blood levels of growth hormone, the hormone that

promotes development after birth.

Susan mcCracken and her daughter, madeleine Bognar,

are two participants in Dr. Boyd’s research. “This study

is very important,” says madeleine. “Breast density is

something I would want to know about ahead of time

and perhaps be able to prevent the disease.” Adds her

mother: “I am very proud of maddie. I can’t think of a

better form of community service than participating in

research like this.”

RISK FACTORSAn important Foundation-funded study following almost

1,500 women reports that women from families with

a high prevalence of breast cancer are at high risk for

developing the disease – even if they lack the genetic

mutations in the breast cancer genes known as BRCA1

and BRCA2. “The presence of a mutation in either

gene raises a woman’s lifetime risk of breast cancer

to about 80 per cent,” says Kelly metcalfe, PhD, who

conducted the study in collaboration with world-

renowned breast cancer scientist Dr. Steven Narod.

“But in women who have a significant family history but

test negative for these abnormalities, the study found

that the risk of developing breast cancer was still about

40 per cent – about four times that of women in the

general population.”

The good news is that unlike those with the genetic

mutations, women from such families are not at

elevated risk of developing ovarian cancer. “So they

don’t need to consider having their ovaries removed

preventively,” says Dr. metcalfe, an associate professor

in the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing at the

University of Toronto.

According to Dr. Narod, who holds the Canada Research

Chair in Breast Cancer at the University of Toronto

and Women’s College Research Institute, these new

findings will help physicians counsel patients at high

risk who do not bear the mutations. “Now we will be

able to offer better advice about their actual risk. We

need to discuss options such as regular mRI screening

and chemoprevention with tamoxifen or raloxifene,”

he says. “Our hope is to prevent or pick up on breast

cancer early enough to stop patients from dying.”

PRImARY PREVENTIONOngoing Foundation-supported research on breast tissue density and cancer risk

suggests that risk assessment should start much earlier in a woman’s life. And this

assessment could be done with techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging

instead of X-ray.

Dr. Norman Boyd, Senior Scientist at the Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer

Research at Princess margaret Hospital in Toronto, had already verified breast density –

the amount of white tissue present on mammography – as a major risk factor for

breast cancer in middle-aged and older women, but little was known about breast

density in the teenage years.

Since breast density is largely inherited, Dr. Boyd’s team has been conducting a

study of 400 mother-daughter pairs, recruiting daughters ages 15 to 30. ”We know

that breast density is an inherited characteristic,” says Dr. Boyd. “And that the breast

is most susceptible to the effects of carcinogens at early ages.”

The study’s findings suggest that differences in breast tissue composition in early

life may be a potential mechanism for the increased susceptibility in young women.

And by identifying the environmental and genetic factors that influence breast tissue

composition in early life, it may be possible to develop safe and effective methods

of prevention. “We could perhaps provide medication or advise lifestyle changes to

reduce density and modify risk,” says Dr. Boyd. “Or we could identify people at risk

as soon as possible without using X-rays.”

AT UNIVERSITIES AND RESEARCH INSTITUTES ACROSS THE PROVINCE, THE CANADIAN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION – ONTARIO REGION IS FUNDING PRACTICAL, PATIENT-CENTRED RESEARCH THAT IS CHANGING APPROACHES TO PREVENTION, DETECTION, DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT AND SUPPORTIVE CARE. HERE ARE SOME HIGHLIGHTS OF CURRENT RESEARCH MADE POSSIBLE BY YOUR SUPPORT.

ADVANCES IN RESEARCH

Dr. Norman Boyd

“ Through the counselling services of Dr. Narod’s office, my fear of breast cancer was replaced with confidence and a real understanding of my cancer risk factors – and most important, of the screening and treatment options.” – STUDY PARTICIPANT

Susan mcCracken, research subject Kelly metcalfe, PhDDr. Steven Narodmadeleine Bognar, research subject

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IN GRANTS AWARDED FROM 2000-2009

$60 millionNEARLY


11ADVANCES IN RESEARCH

ADVANCES IN RESEARCH

After examining tumours from more than 350 patients

as far away as Europe, Dynemo researchers found

that those who survive breast cancer have a different

organization of the protein network within the cancer

cells, compared with patients who succumb. The

system is able to predict which patients can expect

to survive for five years cancer-free. “So far, we’ve

been over 80 per cent accurate in predicting a good

prognosis,” says Taylor. “And within five years, we hope

to be able to predict which chemotherapy regimen

might work effectively for an individual patient.”

TREATmENTAs former head of breast medical oncology at Princess

margaret Hospital in Toronto, Dr. mark Clemons (now

at the Ottawa Hospital Regional Cancer Centre) was

the lead investigator in a groundbreaking Foundation-

funded study. Four years ago, he was on a VIA Rail

train to montreal en route to a cancer meeting with

his colleague Dr. Christine Simmons. A fundamental

question occurred to him: why wouldn’t cancers change

over time? “We realized that the studies looking at this

question in the past were rather poorly designed, and

by the end of the journey we had the whole study

planned,” he says.

His first study, whose results were published in march

2009, recruited 40 patients with suspected recurrent

breast cancer and rebiopsied them to see whether their

tumours had changed since the patients were originally

diagnosed with early-stage disease and whether they

now needed different management. In most cases

around the world, treatment for recurrent breast cancer

has been centred on the characteristics of the original

tumours, some of which may have been removed many

years earlier.

The study found that in women undergoing biopsy for

metastatic disease, important parameters had changed

since the patients’ original breast cancer surgery.

Hormone receptor status was altered in 40 per cent.

In 8 per cent Her-2/neu status had changed. Three

women had benign disease and one had a lymphoma.

In all, different treatments were recommended for 20

per cent. “This study is exciting and practical and it’s

very patient-driven,” says Dr. Clemons.

Study findings saved some women from having

unnecessary or ineffective treatment. Dr. Clemons also

launched a second study in this series with more than

100 patients, again funded by the Canadian Breast

Cancer Foundation – Ontario Region. “This time next year,

we hope to have exciting new data, and we hope that

this approach will benefit women around the world.”

Heather Kennedy is already benefiting from this new

approach. “I have metastatic breast cancer and was

scheduled to have chemotherapy,” she says. Thanks to

a second biopsy, chemotherapy proved unnecessary, and

Heather’s hormone-responsive cancer is now being

treated with a tablet that blocks the production of

estrogen by inhibiting the aromatase enzyme.

SCREENINGWhat factors determine whether a woman returns

for that all-important breast screening at the

recommended two-year intervals for those at average

risk? Does having nurses at screening centres to

provide clinical breast exams and breast health

education improve compliance?

These are questions addressed in a study by Anna

Chiarelli, PhD, and her colleagues at Cancer Care

Ontario in Toronto. They studied a representative

sample of 1,900 women ages 50 to 65 who had

undergone a first screening during 2002 under the

Ontario Breast Screening Program (OBSP). As of

1998, not all OBSP mammography sites had nurses

offering clinical exams as well. “So this study provided

an opportunity to see if having nurses influenced

compliance,” says Dr. Chiarelli.

The subjects were drawn from all OBSP centres across

the province, about 70 per cent of which had a nurse

on staff in 2002. Subjects were considered compliant

if they returned for screening within 30 months of their

initial screening.

Factors associated with compliance included the

following: whether a woman had previously undergone

a mammogram or a physical breast exam elsewhere

before screening in the OBSP, whether a woman

demonstrated good health practices (such as not

smoking and having had a Pap smear in the past two

years), and whether she had a superior knowledge of

breast cancer risk factors and screening.

Comparing nurse-staffed and non-nurse-staffed

centres, the study found that nurses may have

a positive impact on compliance. “It seems that

nurses may be reinforcing women’s knowledge of

breast cancer and screening because they do offer

some education,” says Dr. Chiarelli, Lead Scientist,

Population Studies and Surveillance, at Cancer Care

Ontario. “They may influence compliance by providing

a positive initial screening experience, as well as

support for women who have an abnormal screen.”

PROGNOSIS An exciting new biotechnology under development with

Foundation support is predicting which breast cancer

patients can expect a favourable outcome. And it may

soon also predict how patients will respond to specific

chemotherapy regimens.

Dynemo Biosystems (www.dynemobiosystems.com) is

being developed in the laboratory of Jeff Wrana, PhD,

at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of mount

Sinai Hospital in Toronto. The technology analyzes

the dynamic interaction of networks of proteins in

tumours and makes a prognosis based on the biology

of a specific tumour. “We look at the differences in

protein interactions between less aggressive and

more aggressive tumours,” says Ian Taylor, a doctoral

candidate in molecular biology whose research is

funded by the Foundation. “We take the genetic

material known as RNA from excised tumours and

analyze the dynamic expression of RNA to determine

the interactions between various proteins.”

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“ Within five years, we hope to be able to predict which chemotherapy regimen might work effectively for an individual patient.” – IAN TAYLOR

Jeff Wrana, PhD Ian Taylor Dr. mark ClemonsAnna Chiarelli, PhD Ian Taylor Dr. Clemons at Breast Cancer Today, Oshawa


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professional. “It’s not as if they’re entering into couples

therapy; it’s more like the facilitator is giving them

encouragement and support,” says Dr. Fergus. “The

whole emphasis is on building a sense of ongoing

commitment and confidence that they can meet the

challenges of breast cancer together.”

An online intervention may also attract male partners

who are often reluctant to take part in face-to-face

counselling. The intervention could be adapted for older

couples and those in non-traditional partnerships, as

well as couples facing other cancer diagnoses.

BREAST CANCER BIOLOGYResearchers have long wondered why metastatic breast

cancers are so resistant to radiation and chemotherapy.

Recently, scientists demonstrated that stem-like cancer

cells, or cancer stem cells (CSCs), are responsible

for promoting tumour growth, but their role in cancer

metastasis remained unclear. Last year, Alysha Croker,

a PhD candidate in the Department of Anatomy and

Cell Biology at the University of Western Ontario in

London, showed that CSCs play an important role in

the spread of breast cancer to other parts of the body.

With a fellowship from the Foundation, she then

investigated whether CSCs might also be involved in

resistance to treatment. She discovered that CSCs can

survive both radiation and chemotherapy much better

than non-stem-like cancer cells. “We’ve found the cells

we want to target, which is a huge step forward,” she

says. “Now all we need to do is to find a way to kill

those cells.” She also discovered that exposing these

resistant cells to a chemical agent called ATRA made

them more sensitive to radiation and chemotherapy,

and resulted in more cell death.

Croker hopes that identifying the reasons behind this

heightened sensitization of cancer cells with ATRA

will lead to more targeted and effective breast cancer

therapies for patients.

POST-SURGICAL CAREWhen a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer, a general

surgeon may perform her mastectomy or lumpectomy

and then refer her elsewhere for chemotherapy, radiation

or breast reconstruction. Oftentimes, her surgeon can’t

answer all her questions pertaining to her care.

But after completing a two-year Foundation-funded

Interdisciplinary Breast Surgery Clinical Fellowship,

Dr. Renée Hanrahan, a general surgery oncologist,

hopes to change that. She is setting up a new

practice in Barrie, where she will be able to offer more

comprehensive care, including breast reconstruction,

to women in the Georgian Bay region.

During the first year of her fellowship at the Cancer

Centre of Southeastern Ontario at Kingston General

Hospital, Dr. Hanrahan completed rotations in non-

surgical areas including medical oncology, radiation

oncology, pathology and palliative care. She spent the

second year at the University of Western Ontario in

London learning reconstructive plastic surgery, which

she feels is a very important part of patient care.

Dr. Hanrahan hopes that other general surgeons will

acquire breast reconstruction skills so they can offer

more comprehensive care to their patients.

Knowing the different aspects of a breast cancer

treatment plan is important for a surgeon as elements

of this plan often affect surgical decisions about, for

example, the choice of breast reconstruction. “A woman

may ask me what I think about her radiation treatments,

and I need to be able to answer her. It’s the radiation

oncologist providing that treatment, but I can provide

information as well.”

With her specialized knowledge she expects to be able

to relieve the fear of the unknown experienced by many

of her patients. “If you relieve some of the anxiety, then

you’re really ahead of the game with these patients.”

EACH YEAR, THE FOUNDATION AWARDS A NUMBER OF FELLOWSHIPS TO HELP DEVELOP THE NEXT GENERATION OF BREAST CANCER RESEARCHERS AND CLINICIANS. MEET THREE OF OUR RECENT FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS.

THE NEXT GENERATION

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QUALITY OF LIFEDealing with breast cancer can strain any intimate

relationship, but for young couples who might also have

demanding careers and small children, the diagnosis

can be particularly challenging. Karen Fergus, PhD,

an assistant professor at York University and a clinical

psychologist at the Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre

in Toronto, received a Foundation fellowship to study

the impact of breast cancer on intimate relationships.

Her current Foundation-funded research focuses on

developing and evaluating an online program aimed at

strengthening couples’ relationships and their ability to

cope with this stressful situation.

In the comfort of their own home, a couple can log

onto the private website and complete six weekly

relationship enhancement exercises – for example,

exploring their strengths as individuals and as a couple.

Along the way, they get guidance from a mental health

OPEN TO NEW DIRECTIONS

One of the hallmarks of Foundation funding policy is its willingness to support promising research into uncharted territory. For example, it funded a study in the much-debated area of environmental and occupational risk factors for breast cancer.

Conducted with patients at the Windsor Regional Cancer Centre by Jim Brophy, PhD, and margaret Keith, PhD, the study found an elevated risk of breast cancer in women who had been raised on farms or who had worked in farming, health care or auto manufacturing. “I don’t think we could have done this study without the support of the Foundation,” says Dr. Keith. “It is very difficult to get funding for controversial research.”

The Foundation is funding further study by Drs. Brophy and Keith in this emerging area of breast cancer research.

Dr. Renée Hanrahan Karen Fergus, PhD Alysha CrokerDr. Hanrahan with Foundation supporters in London

“ The whole emphasis in this online program is on building a couple’s sense of ongoing commitment and confidence that they can meet the challenges of breast cancer together.” – KAREN FERGUS, PHD

Karen Fergus at Grant Review PanelDr. Hanrahan speaking in London

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SIDE EFFECTS OF TREATmENTSome women treated for breast cancer develop

secondary lymphedema, a condition characterized

by swelling, mainly in the upper body. It can occur

when regional lymph nodes are surgically removed or

damaged by treatment, leading to impaired drainage,

a build-up of lymph fluid, pain and even tissue damage.

Lymphedema is not life-threatening but it can be

debilitating and may seriously interfere with a woman’s

day-to-day functioning.

Lymphedema: Take Control is a two-year Ottawa-based

project funded by the Foundation to raise awareness

about lymphedema and promote the value of exercise

for risk reduction and management. “This project has

helped to replace fear with accessible information and

proactive strategies, including safe and appropriate

exercise, for risk reduction and management,” says

coordinator Kathleen Gotts.

The project created educational print materials for

patients and breast health partners in the community.

It also designed and ran an exercise program called Go

with the Flow to help survivors reduce risk or manage

the condition. Other accomplishments were the

development of a training module for fitness instructors

and four community workshops to raise awareness

about lymphedema and the role of exercise in breast

cancer survivorship. “This is an important component

in educating and supporting women who have

undergone treatment for breast cancer,” said one

Go with the Flow participant.

BREAST CANCER TODAYIn April and may 2009, our valued partnership with

Scotiabank enabled us once again to bring breast

cancer patients and their families and supporters face

to face with leading experts in breast cancer science,

treatment and quality of life.

Now in its second year, our three-year series of

interactive forums, Breast Cancer Today: An Evening

of Care & Community, visited five cities across Ontario.

In Burlington, Oshawa, Ottawa, Sudbury and Windsor,

several different breast cancer researchers and

service providers inspired audiences with updates

on heartening scientific advances as well as new

approaches to treatment. Topics ranged from experimental

therapies to stop bone metastases and the emerging

role of extreme stress in raising breast cancer risk to

the enzyme blockers used to treat hormone-positive

breast tumours. The speakers then answered questions

from the audience in lively Q&A sessions.

Representatives from local breast cancer services and

support groups displayed resource materials, answered

questions and connected with audience members. “I

was able to meet others in my community who had

survived breast cancer like me,” said one participant.

Added another: “Excellent presentations! The entire

panel of speakers was informative and inspiring.”

BREAST HEALTH AWARENESSThroughout the ages, hairdressers have been among

women’s closest confidantes. And with Foundation

funding, an innovative program in Ontario’s Hamilton,

Niagara, Brant and Haldimand-Norfolk regions has

capitalized on that connection, enlisting the aid of salon

stylists as lay educators to promote regular breast cancer

screening in the Ontario Breast Screening Program (OBSP).

The Be a Breast Friend Salon Project distributed

recruitment packages to 980 salons, and 120

requested further resources. Kits included copies

of Squeeze, a glossy colour magazine about breast

health featuring women sharing their stories about

mammograms; mirror decals saying “Stylists Save Lives –

Ask me How”; and emery boards with the OBSP’s

1-800 telephone number. All resources included the

address of the Be A Breast Friend website, which

received almost 4,300 hits.

“We were pleased with the response,” says project co-

coordinator Faye Parascandalo, RN, BScN, a Hamilton

public health nurse. “It showed that the hair salon is

an appropriate venue for relaying health messages.”

A follow-up survey on the project indicated that 65

per cent of participating clients felt encouraged to

get regular mammograms and 94 per cent planned

to tell other women about the importance of regular

mammography. “The support of the Foundation was

essential to its success,” says Parascandalo.

SHARING KNOWLEDGE WITH THE COMMUNITY

ACROSS ONTARIO, FOUNDATION RESOURCES AND PROGRAMS ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF BREAST CANCER PATIENTS AND THEIR LOVED ONES AND CAREGIVERS. HERE ARE A FEW OF THE IMPORTANT INITIATIVES SUPPORTED BY THE FOUNDATION.

AFTER DIAGNOSIS“What is happening to my body? What can I expect from surgery and treatment?”

These are just some of the many questions a woman may have after a diagnosis of

breast cancer. It is normal to have questions, just as it is normal to feel afraid, angry

or sad, and each person deals with her diagnosis differently. Some wonder how to

tell family and friends; others have questions about what to expect from surgery.

That’s why the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation – Ontario Region, with the

generous support of CIBC, has released a new edition of the booklet Guiding Women

Through a Breast Cancer Diagnosis…a supportive and personal approach. Breast

cancer survivors from communities across Ontario helped shape the content of

the booklet. The current edition is adapted from an existing community resource

published in 2006 through the leadership of the Ontario Breast Screening Program –

South and Southwest Regions, with funding from the Canadian Breast Cancer

Foundation – Ontario Region.

Drawing upon these survivors’ input, the pages of Guiding Women offer supportive

information based on relevant questions that women may have between the time they

first learn of their diagnosis and their first appointment at a cancer clinic. This guide

aims to help not only women with breast cancer but also their families and friends.

The Foundation is making this valuable resource available through participating

health-care professionals to meet the needs of women diagnosed with breast cancer.

more than 13,000 copies were distributed in the first nine months of the program.

Guiding Women is also available online for downloading at: www.cbcf.org/guidingwomen.

The document has been downloaded almost 700 times in its first nine months.

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2009 Volunteer Award winnersWITH A LOT OF HELP FROm OUR FRIENDS… SECOND ANNUAL VOLUNTEER AWARDS HONOUR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTORSVolunteers are the working engines of the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation’s

activities in Ontario. They serve on the Board of Directors and lend their expertise

to committees and grant review panels. They devote long hours to organizing

community fundraisers and supporting our signature annual event, the Canadian

Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure, which takes place each year on

the first Sunday before Thanksgiving.

This past spring, the Foundation recognized the outstanding contributions of its

volunteers at the second annual Volunteer Awards Ceremony, held at the Fairmont

Royal York Hotel in Toronto. Nearly 200 volunteers from across the province attended

the event. Apart from the award presentations, the afternoon event included

speeches and a high tea.

OUR SUCCESS DEPENDS ON THE TIME DONATED BY OUR DEDICATED VOLUNTEERS. THEY DO EVERYTHING FROM ORGANIzING FUNDRAISING EVENTS TO SITTING ON OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND GRANT REVIEW COMMITTEES. HATS OFF TO YOU ALL!

VOLUNTEERS: OUR BACKBONE

2009 AWARD RECIPIENTSGanong Volunteer Award Debra Schmidt

Corporate Commitment Award Tubbs/K2 Corporation

Friends of the Foundation Awards

Carleton Heights Curling Club Bonspiel Committee;

Community Living Toronto

Youth Volunteer Award Colin mcmahon

Outstanding Volunteer Awards

Allan Bell; Helmut Knobl; Adrienne maniezzo

New Run Director Award Jen Nichol

Returning Run Director Award Rhonda mcmahon

Top Community Event Fundraising Award

Yard Sale for the Cure: Andrew Howard; Rachael Smith;

melissa Brown

Voice of the Foundation Award Leona Fields

Jeanette Hawke Volunteer Recognition Award

Susan Goodman

YOUTH AWARD WINNER COLIN mCmAHONBack in march 2008, long-haired 14-year-old Colin

mcmahon decided to go bald (or nearly bald) for breast

cancer. “Diana Deakin, a close family friend, had been

diagnosed with breast cancer, and I decided to try to

raise some funds at the same time I got my hair cut,”

says Colin. “I don’t know anyone who hasn’t been

touched in some way by this disease.” The few minutes

Colin spent under the shears on April Fool’s Day in front

of 700 cheering kids at his London high school turned

into an $11,000 haircut – the amount raised by Colin

and his sponsors. This October, Colin is scheduled to

give a motivational speech at the London Run site.

“I hope other young people will see what I was able

to do and say, ‘I can do this, too,’” he says. His older

sister Kristin is participating in the Run in Ottawa

this year.

Tubbs/K2 snowshoeing event

Run participant

VOLUNTEERS: BY THE NUMBERS

ALL ACTIVITIES

Number of volunteers* 6,400

Number of volunteer hours 52,000

THE CANADIAN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION CIBC RUN FOR THE CURE

Number of participants 70,000

Number of participant hours 153,000

*Numbers are approximate

Colin mcmahon, after, with Diana DeakinColin mcmahon, before

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NON-RUN VOLUNTEER HOURS

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Rick Creechan with Kirsten Keil-mehlenbacher

A SALUTE TO TWO OUTSTANDING – AND LONGSTANDING – RUN DIRECTORSSandy O’Reilly and Rick Creechan are among our longest-serving and most

inspiring Run Directors. They’ve done an amazing job organizing the Burlington/

Hamilton/Oakville (BHO) Run site, bringing the funds raised by BHO to more than

$1 million annually.

O’Reilly joined the Run as a participant 12 years ago and has been co-director for

eight years. “Since I joined the Run in 2001, several family members have been

stricken with breast cancer, and that has kept me motivated,” she says.

Balancing the competing demands of the Run with job, family and other volunteer

activities can be challenging, O’Reilly concedes. “But over the years, I’ve learned

to respect the talents of my committee and to understand when I can trust them

to get the job done.”

O’Reilly values her experiences with the Run for the extraordinary ties she’s

developed. “These include relationships with outstanding team captains,

dedicated volunteers and the wonderful Foundation staff,” she says.

THE RUN IS THE FOUNDATION’S SIGNATURE ANNUAL EVENT, HELD EACH YEAR ON THE FIRST SUNDAY BEFORE THANKSGIVING AT THE BEGINNING OF BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH. THE 2008 RUN ATTRACTED 70,000 PARTICIPANTS IN 20 ONTARIO COMMUNITIES AND RAISED $12.9 MILLION. A BIG THANK YOU TO ALL OUR ORGANIzERS AND RUNNERS.

What are highlights for her? O’Reilly recalls her first

year as a Run Director when the BHO site increased

the funds raised by 50 per cent over the previous

year. “The second highlight was last year when we

topped the $1 million mark,” she says. “Both of these

milestones are a tribute to my wonderful committee

members who have been so dedicated to this event

and such an incredible support to me.”

O’Reilly has this message for potential Run volunteers:

“Be prepared for the fact that you are making a

significant commitment in time, but also understand

that it will be one of the most rewarding experiences

you will ever enjoy.”

O’Reilly’s Co-Run Director, Rick Creechan, has been

part of the Run for 10 years and a Run Director for

eight. “When I see the courage of the survivors, it

really inspires me,” says Creechan. For him, his Run

commitments are a priority, and his colleagues have

come to understand this. One of the best parts for him

is sharing experiences with Run Directors across the

country. Creechan, too, has advice for new volunteers:

“It’s great if you have sense of humour because it

won’t all go smoothly, but it will be fun.”

TEAm CHFIFor Erin Davis, the skipper of CHFI’s Run team, her

commitment to the cause is driven by two mottoes.

The first: “When you’re going through hell, keep going.”

“We raise money for our sisters, mothers, daughters,

grandmothers and friends in the hopes that they’ll

never hear the words ‘You have breast cancer.’ But for

those who have, we keep going on their behalf,” she

says. Erin’s second motto (based on an old Kenyan

saying) is: “Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.”

“As individuals, we have varying amounts of strength,

but when we come together with a common cause in

our hearts and minds, we become unstoppable. There

is nothing we can’t do.”

The CHFI team, founded in 2004, has contributed

more than $340,000 for the cause, including the

almost $82,000 its 217 members raised in 2008.

The team hasn’t set a dollar target for 2009 because,

says Davis, “we believe that by allowing people to give

what they feel is right, they will – and then some.”

Erin draws inspiration from her many dedicated

co-workers at CHFI such as Jacqueline Gilgannon and

from good friends such as Allan Bell, who put in long

hours planning fundraising events. “But our biggest

source of inspiration is the kindness and generosity of

CHFI listeners. When we ask them for something, the

answer is almost always, ‘Yes, what do you need?’ We

can never let them down – and we won’t.”

For those who would like to start a team, Davis has this

advice: “Find people who believe in what you believe

in. Let everyone contribute their ideas and whatever

resources they bring to the table. Then take the best

of it all and build a team.”

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mike Cooper and Erin Davis, Team CHFI

“ When we come together with a common cause in our hearts and minds, we become unstoppable. There is nothing we can’t do.”

– ERIN DAVIS

Team CHFISandy O’Reilly

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RUN PARTICIPANTS70,000


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Ontario Run Directors

CANADIAN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION CIBC RUN FOR THE CURE

Sue Cashman and Dianne Davison

RUN SITE RUN DIRECTORS

Barrie/Orillia Deborah Tennant

Leah Black

Brampton zina Atkinson

Deanne Duggal

Burlington/ Rick Creechan

Hamilton/Oakville Sandy O’Reilly

Collingwood Jen Nichol

Andrea Hazelwood

Durham Region Gerrie Wonnacott

mellisa Seagull

Guelph Albert marsolais

Rhonda mcmahon

Kingston Helen Snair

Carol Ann Burns


Kitchener/Waterloo Nancy Hawes

Carol Bilton

London Tammy Jeffery

Teresa Hitchen

muskoka Lynn Logan

Niagara Region michelle Pharand

Patricia Christie

North Bay Anne-marie Desjardins

Tammy megginson

Ottawa-Gatineau Kelly Fry

martin Chenier

Peterborough Cheryl mcLaughlin

Jamie mitchell


Sault Ste. marie mary Katherine Cameron

Ellie Love

Simcoe Deanna Dedrick

Gail Catherwood

Sudbury Pam Paradis-Sokoloski

manuela Vairo

Thunder Bay Pirkko Ramsay

Lindsey Deering

Toronto Laura Strickler

Nathan Giles

Amanda Robertson

Windsor Dawn Pearson

Heather Harvey

Spa Day on September 20, 2009, raising almost

$1,000. Team members also sponsor silent auctions,

bake sales and raffles at their places of work.

The Angels have won the New Balance Women’s

Challenge Award in 2007 and the New Balance Grand

Prize in 2008, raising more than $7,000 each year.

As team captain, Cashman has won the Determination

Award for Kingston three years in a row (2006, 2007

and 2008), raising more than $3,000 each year, as

well as the New Balance Grand Prize. “This year our

goal is to raise $10,000, and we’re already up to

$6,500.” So far, the team has raised a total of

almost $30,000.

2008 DETERmINATION AWARD WINNERSBarrie/Orillia Larry Pomfret

Brampton Brando Paris

Burlington/Hamilton/Oakville Diana Oddi

Collingwood Jennifer Cummings

Durham Region Trish Gambier

Guelph melinda Rosauro

Kingston Sue Cashman

Kitchener/Waterloo Wendy Garner

London margot Pawley

muskoka michael Weber

Niagara Region Brooke Cameron

North Bay micheline Bedard

Ottawa-Gatineau Judi Haines

Peterborough Janet Howsam

Sault Ste. marie James Dukes

Simcoe Deborah Grant

Sudbury myra Gerow

Thunder Bay Denise Blair

Toronto Leona Fields

Windsor Catherine Yanchula, mD

DETERmINATION AWARD WINNERSUE CASHmAN

Sue Cashman captains a Canadian Breast Cancer

Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure team whose motto

is this: “You have two options, medically and emotionally.

Give up, or fight with everything you’ve got.”

Cashman and her Kingston team have definitely chosen

the latter. Since the 2008 Run her fleet-footed group,

Bev and mickey’s Angels, has grown from 16 to 22

and includes six breast cancer survivors, one of them

Cashman herself. The Angels have been doing the Run

for three years now. “Before that, our team members

participated in fundraising for different types of cancer,”

she says. “It was when we lost two of our members

to breast cancer and had four other team members

who were survivors that we switched to the Run.”

But Cashman and the inspiring Angels don’t stop at the

Run. So far this year, they’ve participated in fundraising

garage sales and a Sunday Spa Day, both held at

Cashman’s home. “We had over 30 people sign up for

pedicures and manicures, with nail polish donated by

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Brando Paris, Brampton Jennifer Cummings, Collingwood Bev and mickey’s Angels, Kingston Sunday Spa Day

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Peterborough Dream Angels North Bay Run committeeRidley College Run team

“ You have two options, medically and emotionally. Give up, or fight with everything you’ve got.”

– SUE CASHMAN

Never too young to run

MAKING IT HAPPEN AT THE RUN


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WABANO RELAY FOR THE CUREBy participating in the Canadian Breast Cancer

Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure, the Wabano

Aboriginal Women’s Breast Health Promotion Program

helped raise awareness about the disease in Ottawa’s

underserved Aboriginal community. Wabano marked

the Run by holding an intergenerational relay with 40

participants. The Ottawa Aboriginal community is one

of Canada’s largest.

“The need for raising awareness among First Nations,

Inuit and métis people was clear,” says Pam Naymark,

Wabano’s Women’s Wellness Coordinator. “Several

clients coming to Wabano were experiencing breast

cancer, and Wabano staff and community members

believed that there was an insufficient awareness of

the issue among Aboriginal women, as well as the

absence of a specific health promotion program

geared to Aboriginal women.”

Studies in Ontario had shown that cancer rates in

Aboriginal people are increasing faster than Canada’s

overall cancer rates. And members of this population

tend to be diagnosed at later stages and suffer more

cancer deaths.

The Run relay was just one of Wabano’s initiatives.

Another was Breast Impressions, an educational

program to create breast awareness through art

therapy, nutrition workshops, elder teachings and

healthy lifestyles. Participants made and decorated

castings of their breasts weekly for four weeks.

On board the Boobmobile, health professionals from

Wabano and the Breast Cancer Screening Clinic took

participants on a tour of the clinic, explained mammo-

graphy procedures and answered women’s questions.

Wabano’s Bra-Fitting Workshop allowed women to

experience new-found confidence in, and consideration

for, their breasts. In its first year of operation, the

program attracted 458 participants. “We had a very

good response,” says Naymark.

Niagara’s Ridley Run team

DREAm ANGELSJohanne maddison has a big dream for her Run team,

the Dream Angels of Peterborough. For 2010, the team

captain has plans to expand her runners (and walkers)

from 31 in 2008 to 100 – 10 for each year she will

have participated in the Run.

“I want to see a whole of lot of pink shirts!” she

says. The team’s fundraising objective for 2010 is

to reach $100,000. So far, the Angels have raised

nearly $75,000, with maddison herself personally

responsible for more than $28,000 of that. In addition,

the Dream Angels have won their city’s New Balance

Women’s Team Challenge Award for the past eight

years. maddison, who lost three aunts to breast cancer

and has one aunt who is a survivor, did her first Run

in 2000 and never looked back, founding her team in

2001. “The Run has had a big impact on me. It made

me an active marathon participant,” she says. “And I

am so grateful for the support of all the women on my

team and to the Run for changing my life.”

TEAm GALATITeam Galati, Hope for the Cure, Brampton, was the

top Family and Friends fundraising team in Canada in

2008, raising more than $57,000 for the Run. Since

2005, the group has donated almost $114,000 to the

cause. Team Galati – whose motto is “Giving Purpose,

Gaining Hope” – is a group of caring people who have

come together to honour and remember those affected

by breast cancer by raising funds for research, education

and awareness programs. “We started in 2005 with

just a few members and now we have more than 40

committed volunteers,” says team captain Vicki Galati,

a breast cancer survivor. “I started the team in 2005

in order to give something back after I was successfully

treated for breast cancer at Sunnybrook Health Sciences

Centre in Toronto. I am pleased to say that I am now

five years cancer-free.”

RIDLEY RUNS FOR THE CURERah, rah, Ridley! The top school team in Niagara

Region’s 2008 Run was Ridley College in St.

Catharines. The 600-student co-educational school

raised almost $3,000 in 2008, and since 2003 has

contributed nearly $48,000 to the Foundation. “We

had about 120 runners in 2008 – mainly girls and a

few faculty members. This year we hope to get up to

around 150 runners,” says Anne Kravchenko, a Ridley

housemaster who has helped organize the Run for the

past four years. The October 2009 Run will be open to

the whole school and is expected to recruit more boys.

“I’m committed to this cause for personal reasons

because my 35-year-old sister is battling breast

cancer,” says Kravchenko.

Peterborough Dream Angels Run team Brampton Run’s Team Galati Wabano intergenerational relay Run event Wabano Boobmobile

“The visit to the screening centre taught me about breast health, how a mammogram is done, how to recognize a lump and what it feels like.” – WABANO PARTICIPANT

Johanne maddison Screening Centre

TEAMS RUN FOR THE CURE

Breast Impressions

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MUSKOKA REGION – 4 events

BARRIE/ORILLIA – 6 eventsYORK REGION – 33 events

GUELPH REGION – 7 eventsWATERLOO REGION – 28 events

LONDON – 22 events

ELGIN COUNTY – 4 events

HURON COUNTY – 3 events

MIDDLESEX COUNTY – 3 eventsNIAGARA REGION – 15 events

GREY COUNTY – 4 eventsPORT ELGIN – 2 events

RUN SITE LOCATIONS

COMMUNITY EVENT LOCATIONS

HALTON REGION – 15 events

TORONTO – 116 eventsPEEL REGION – 42 events

DURHAM REGION – 17 events

NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY – 3 eventsKINGSTON – 9 events

PETERBOROUGH COUNTY – 6 events

OTTAWA/GATINEAU – 39 events

SUDBURY – 2 events

NORTH BAY

TIMMINS – 1 event

PORT DOVER – 1 event

RENFREW COUNTY – 3 events

SAULT STE. MARIE

THUNDER BAY – 2 events

HASTINGS COUNTY – 6 events

STORMONT/DUNDAS/GLENGARRY COUNTY – 3 events

LEEDS/GRENVILLE COUNTY – 6 events

DUNNVILLE – 1 eventPARIS – 1 eventHAMILTON/DUNDAS – 14 events

BORDEN – 1 event

NIPISSING – 1 event

NEW LISKEARD – 2 events

SIMCOE COUNTY– 4 events

OXFORD COUNTY – 3 events

ESSEX COUNTY – 2 events

FORT FRANCES – 1 event

HONEYWOOD – 1 event

NOBEL – 1 event

PERTH COUNTY – 1 event

PETROLIA – 1 event

PICTON – 1 event

PRESCOTT/RUSSELL COUNTY – 5 events

ONTARIO

HALIBURTON COUNTY – 1 event

COmmUNITY EVENTS

IN EVERY CORNER OF ONTARIO, OUR SUPPORTERS RALLY THEIR FAMILIES, FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES TO THE CAUSE. HERE ARE SOME OF THE WONDERFUL EVENTS THEY ORGANIzE IN THEIR HOMETOWNS.

COMMUNITIES FOR THE CURECOmmUNITY EVENTS

PINK RIBBON NIGHTThey shoot, they score and they’re pretty in pink! Pink ribbons on hockey sticks.

Pink ribbons on helmets. On October 21, 2008, maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment

(mLSE) partnered with the Foundation in a special hockey night to raise funds for the

cause. Sporting pink boas, Lady Leafs – the players’ wives and fiancées – distributed

pink ribbons and took donations from the fans at the gates. Sticks, helmets and

jerseys were auctioned off online. “Pink Ribbon Night raised more than $32,000,”

says Dave Hopkinson, mLSE’s Senior Vice-President, Corporate and Community

Partnerships, and one of the Foundation’s top five fundraisers in the 2008 Canadian

Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure in Toronto.

This year, mLSE will expand the event to a Pink Ribbon weekend, adding a Raptors

game, a marlies game and a Toronto FC soccer game with players wearing pink

jerseys. “We are interested in strengthening our relationship with the Foundation and

identifying ways to partner with it for a future without breast cancer,” says Hopkinson.

Katie Fairbrother, matt Stajan’s fiancée, and Tess White, Ian White’s wife, with two Leafs fans

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YogaDancersProud To Be Pink hockey coaches

THE SPIRIT OF YOGA – AN EVENING OF KIRTAN & KRIPALU YOGADANCE® FOR THE CURE On November 8, 2008, a Kripalu YogaDance instructor

and two yoga instructors joined forces in a Thornhill

church to create an evening of community filled with

warmth, fun and spirituality. Organized by speech

pathologist Fern Westernoff, Heather Skoll, and Sandy

Hoffbauer, and with door prizes donated by local

businesses, the event collected more than $1,700 for

the Foundation. “It continues to draw many of the same

participants back year after year,” says Westernoff.

Enthusiastic comments ranged from “an uplifting and

heartfelt experience” and “wonderful combination of

body, soul and spirit” to “I like to dance…now” and

“can’t wait for the next one!” The next one is planned

for fall 2009.

PROUD TO BE PINKThe coaches’ Proud To Be Pink challenge to their young

hockey team, the Kanata Cyclones, was clear: raise

$1,000 for the Foundation and they would don pink

dresses for the December 13, 2008, game against

their rivals, the Flames. “These 11- and 12-year-old

boys went door to door collecting donations and they

also donated their allowances. So just a few weeks into

the challenge, they had already doubled that figure,”

says Chantal macDonald, whose husband, Jeff, was

one of the coaches. Pro Hockey Life, a local sports

store, was sufficiently impressed to present the players

with 17 pink jerseys minutes before they took to the

ice for the big game with their sticks wrapped in pink

tape. And yes, the coaches kept their word and wore

rosy frocks. “There is so much pride in these young

boys associated with the jerseys,” says Chantal. “They

continued to wear their pink jerseys during road hockey

and at practices and team-building events outside the

arena.” The event ultimately raised almost $3,500 for

the cause.

CONVOY FOR A CURELast October, 29 long-haul truckers revved up the

engines of their big rigs and rolled down the 401 to

raise funds for the cause. All of them were women.

They decked out their 18-wheelers in pink ribbons and

attached the names and photos of family members

and friends affected by breast cancer. The Convoy for

a Cure was the brainchild of Gatineau, Que.–based

trucker Rachèle (“Cocotte”) Champagne, who gave

the “Ladies, start your engines” command at 12

noon at the Fifth Wheel truck stop in Cornwall. The

Convoy pulled up at the 730 Truck Stop in the village

of Cardinal, about 62 kilometres to the west. “For this

year, we’ve added three convoys and expanded into the

U.S.,” says Champagne. The Ontario Convoy for a Cure

rolls again on October 3, 2009, and will also be held in

Edmonton, moncton and Dallas. “I am very interested

in raising awareness about breast cancer among

female truckers,” says Champagne.

TUBBS ROmP TO STOmP OUT BREAST CANCER SNOWSHOE SERIESIn January 2009, the Scenic Caves Nature Adventures

Centre in the town of Blue mountain near Collingwood

shook for the second time to the Tubbs Romp. “The

event worked hard to send a message that a healthy

active lifestyle is very important in the prevention of

breast cancer,” says organizer Dominic mcKenna,

Director of marketing at K2 Sports Canada, a Foundation

National Partner and winner of the Corporate Commitment

Award for 2009. With K2 supplying hundreds of pairs of

Tubbs snowshoes, the Stomp raised almost $14,000.

“Snowshoeing is a perfect way to get out of the city

in the winter months and take part in some healthy

outdoor activity,” says mcKenna.

Drawing outdoor enthusiasts from teenagers to

septuagenarians, the snowshoeing event will take

place again on February 20, 2010.

Female truckers for the cause Tubbs Romp participants

340 COMMUNITY EVENTS

In small towns and big cities, you, our supporters, come up with the most creative ideas to raise funds for the cause.

Garage sales and auctions. Spa days and craft shows. Pinked-up football and hockey games. Raffles, scavenger hunts and curling bonspiels.

Your inventiveness knows no bounds, and the community events you organize on behalf of the Foundation are making real change happen in your communities.

Thanks!

“ A wonderful combination of body, soul and spirit.”

“ An uplifting and heartfelt experience.”

– YOGADANCE PARTICIPANTS

Kanata Cyclones

COMMUNITY EVENTS OF ALL SORTS AND SIzES

29mAKING A DIFFERENCE

Lucie Homburger

PLANNED AND TRIBUTE GIVINGDr. Lucie Tuch Homburger was a dedicated markham

dentist who died in 2007 after a valiant struggle with

breast cancer that recurred about eight years after her

initial diagnosis. To the end of her life, she cared deeply

for her family, friends and patients and shared with

them her thoughts on life and treatment in powerful,

witty and insightful letters. In her will Dr. Homburger

left the Foundation a generous bequest. And in tribute

to his beloved wife, her devoted husband, Egon, also

made a gift to the Foundation.

To read Dr. Homburger’s brave and moving letters,

go to www.cbcf.org/homburger.

FACING OFF FOR THE FOUNDATIONThe slap of the puck against the boards, the scrape of

the blades on the ice – even kids’ hockey is playing a

role in creating a future without breast cancer. In the

fall of 2008, Ontario minor hockey teams supported

the Foundation with the Ford Pins to Win program,

sponsored by our longstanding corporate partner Ford

of Canada. The teams sold pink mini hockey stick pins

for $5 each, of which $2 went to participating teams

and the remaining proceeds to the Foundation. By

campaign’s end, parents and kids had sold more than

40,000 pins. meet the team of nine- and 10-year-old

Bowmanville boys that sold the most – the Clarington

Toros, Atom division. The team sold an amazing 2,500

pink hockey sticks, the goal set by organizers Janice

Strong, Coleen Poulin and Robin munro. “We made the

campaign into a learning experience by getting the boys

out into our community,” says Coleen. “They gained far

more than the funds by supporting the cause.”

RE/mAX SOLD ON A CURE Since 2006, Craig Butcher, an agent at RE/mAX Chay Realty Inc. in Tottenham,

has been donating a portion of all his sales commissions to the cause. Under this

ongoing RE/mAX program, Butcher is a Sold on a Cure Ambassador, contributing to

the Foundation at an inspiring level over the past four years. In fact, Butcher is the

top donor in the program. “This disease affects a lot of people, and I want to do my

part to fight it,” says Butcher.

Also championing the cause is marilyn Ruttan, a RE/mAX broker-owner in Wasaga

Beach. Last year, Ruttan helped organize Breast Cancer Ski Day to raise funds

for research and prevention. The ski day will be held again at Blue mountain in

Collingwood on February 12, 2010. “We believe in what we do wholeheartedly,”

says Ruttan. “All of us have experienced first-hand the difference that our efforts

make.” As a Sold on a Cure Agent, she also contributes a portion of her commissions

to the Foundation. “It’s not just part of a corporate program – it’s part of who

we are,” she says. Incidentally, Ruttan’s son Jason and his childhood friend Jen

Nichol are Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure Co-Run

Directors in Collingwood.

FROM TIMMINS TO TORONTO, FROM COLDWATER TO CORNWALL, ONTARIANS GIVE TO THE CAUSE – AS INDIVIDUALS, IN GROUPS AND IN CORPORATIONS SMALL AND LARGE. HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF THE OUTSTANDING SUPPORT THAT IS MAKING REAL CHANGE HAPPEN.

MAKING A DIFFERENCE

Craig Butcher marilyn Ruttan Clarington Toros

ROAD HOCKEY FACE OFF WITH WAYNE GRETzKY

The Toros got to face off with the Great One, Wayne Gretzky, in a high-profile street hockey tournament. And thanks to Gretzky’s support, pin purchasers had a chance to win a trip to Arizona, where they would meet him and attend a Phoenix Coyotes NHL game.

Wayne Gretzky gets the game going with the Toros’ Blake Strong

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IN INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS

$905,828IN CORPORATE DONATIONS

$475,674


31GALAXY OF STARS

Beverly Thomson

THE FOUNDATION CELEBRATED A HUGE MILESTONE IN 2008: $50 MILLION IN FUNDING FOR BREAST CANCER RESEARCH, TRAINING AND COMMUNITY INITIATIVES SINCE THE YEAR 2000.

PRESENTING SPONSORCIBC

SILVER SPONSORS Akendi

RE/mAX

BRONzE SPONSORShaw Street Productions

RESEARCH INSTITUTION SPONSORSCancer Care Ontario

Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute

of mount Sinai Hospital

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

University Health Network

University of Toronto

Women’s College Hospital

The date was September 18, 2008. The venue was

Toronto’s Fairmont Royal York Hotel. The occasion

was a celebration of a major Foundation milestone:

$50 million in funding between 2000 and 2008

directed to breast cancer research, fellowships and

community health promotion. That funding has led to

real advances in the science of breast cancer and in

clinical and supportive care.

The approximately 400 guests attending the star-

themed gala included a glittering constellation of

Foundation founders, key donors, leading volunteers,

representatives of institutions receiving research funds,

funded investigators and public-sector health experts.

“With the generous support of our corporate partners,

Galaxy of Stars was the Foundation’s way of reporting

back to our many ‘stars’ to let them know how they

are making a difference in the lives of people affected

by breast cancer,” says Beth Easton, the Foundation’s

Vice President of Allocations and Health Promotion.

“They are making real change happen.”

The evening’s mC was the Foundation’s Honorary Board

Chair, Beverly Thomson, co-host of CTV’s Canada Am

and a breast cancer survivor who devotes many hours

to the cause. Thomson told the audience, “Tonight is

about celebrating commitment, dedication, passion

and a vision that we all share: a future without breast

cancer. We would not have been able to get here

without you. We have directed $50 million to breast

cancer research since the year 2000.” She called on

all those present to recommit themselves to the cause.

Nancy Paul, who established the Foundation with a

small group in 1986, told the guests that when the

Foundation was born 22 years ago, “That first step

was taken in faith. I just knew there would be a ‘we’

and that we would do it together. You and I know that

our quest has not ended – there is much yet to be

done. Please never forget for a moment that there

is no dream that may not come true.”

Guests watched a video in which Foundation-funded

researchers such as Dr. Norman Boyd, Dr. mark

Clemons, Barbara Collins, PhD, and Jim Brophy, PhD,

outlined their latest findings. And patients from across

the province explained how those discoveries have

made a difference in their lives.

In the spirit of rededication that characterized the

event, each table included “I Can” cards, on which

guests were invited to write down something they

could do to further support the Foundation’s work.

“The powerful message sent at Galaxy of Stars has

had an impact long after the event itself,” says Easton.

GALAXY OF STARS

CELEBRATING...

• $50 million directed to breast cancer research over eight years

• The tireless passion and commitment of our supporters – donors, researchers, runners, volunteers

• Our unflinching vision of a future without breast cancer

Guests at the event Nancy Paul

GALAXY OF STARS WAS mADE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE GENEROSITY OF THE FOLLOWING SPONSORS...

A table of founders and friendsJim Brophy, PhD Susan Goodman with guests Christina Kramer (L) and CIBC colleagues


33THANK YOU TO OUR DONORS AND SUPPORTERS

THANKS TO OUR DONORS AND SUPPORTERS*Henry Strasser

michael Sweeny and myra Gerow

Team Revlon Canada

Windy O’Neills

PARTNERS AND SUPPORTERSBRONzE RIBBON $5,000 – $9,999

Cancer Care Ontario

Egg Farmers of Ontario

Germiphene Corporation

RON WHITE

Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of mount Sinai Hospital

Shaw Street Productions

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

University Health Network

University of Toronto

Women’s College Hospital

COmmUNITY FUNDRAISING EVENTSBRONzE RIBBON $5,000 – $9,999

2008 Capgemini Scavenger Hunt

Barb’s Babes “Think Pink” Gala

Bridgewater Country Club Ladies’ Division – Pretty in Pink

By Design Golf Tournament – Brian Ward, President

Curl for the Cure in meaford

Holy Name of mary School’s “Pumped in Pink” Fundraiser

International Financial Data Services Annual Golf Tournament

Lax for the Cure

maureen Steves Annual Fundraising Dance

The Pink Ribbon Ride

St. mary’s High School Rhythm & Runway Fashion Show

Women on Course

DONORSCOmmUNITY BUILDER $2,500 – $4,999

1094388 Ontario Limited - Pure Gold

AGF Funds Inc.

Lucie Beaupre

Brian Boucher

The Brookfield Foundation

Craig Butcher, RE/mAX Chay Realty Inc.

Canpar

CIBC

CI Investments

Rob Collins

Harry Culham

Allen Denys

Egon zehnder International Inc.

EmS SATCOm

Fabris Inc.

Fidelity Investments Canada ULC

Gluskin Sheff & Associates Inc.

The Godfrey Family Foundation

Dori Greatti

The Guarantee Company of North America

H&R Reit

Hammond Power Solutions Inc.

High Line Corporation

Richard Horrobin

The Hurley Corporation

International Financial Data Services

Jarden Consumer Solutions

Susan LaFleur

Karen Lambert

Let’s make It History Fundraising

maple Cruisers Car Club

marisa mcIntyre

Kathy and Kerry mcKenna

John J. meehan

NAV CANADA

Nineteen Wetsuits

The Old mill Inn

ONE Financial Corporation

Phazer Electric

Pink Elephant Inc.

Nicole Pohl, RE/mAX Twin City Realty Inc.

Paul Pugh

RBC

Lori Russell

SAS Institute Canada Inc.

michael E. Schultz

mary-Coleen Shanahan

Solid Gold Inn

Sun Life Financial

Swazzee’s Restaurant

Team Busted

TELUS

University of Guelph

Uptown Hardware Ltd.

Kyle Valentine

Diane Wardrope

Wellington motors Limited

Josephine White

Anonymous (3)

PARTNERS AND SUPPORTERSCOmmUNITY BUILDER $2,500 – $4,999

Alphabet Photography

Bikini Village

Linamar Corporation

Linencorp Inc.

metroland media Group Ltd.

COmmUNITY FUNDRAISING EVENTSCOmmUNITY BUILDER $2,500 – $4,999

Babes for Breasts

Brampton Extreme Slo-Pitch League 48 Hour Around the Clock Swing for the Cure

Crop for the Cure

Frances Barnard’s Surprise 50th Birthday Party

Fred Astaire Dance Studios of Canada

Hackfest Classic Golf Tournament

Hockey for Hope Tournament

Kanata Cyclones Proud to be Pink Challenge

Know By Heart

Krista Gill Golf for a Cure

Kyle Kokotailo’s Breast Cancer Fundraiser

LA Invitational Golf Tournament

Langevin Learning Services Inc. Fundraiser

Laurentian Lady V’s 2nd Annual Battle for Breast Cancer

Loyola Catholic Secondary School “Lady Warriors Fight for a Cure”

mother Teresa Catholic Secondary School Pink Powder Puff Football Game

A Night in Nashville with Tonya Kennedy and Friends

Pink Ball at the Cambridge Hotel and Conference Centre

Pink Pajama Party

Pinktober at the Hard Rock Café

Primal Instincts Tattoo Parlour Fundraiser

Sarah misseri & Velma Ratchford Annual Golf Tournament

St. Cuthbert’s Walk for Breast Cancer

St. George’s Golf and Country Club Annual Fall Fashion Show

St. mary’s Golf and Country Club Fore the Cure

Sticking Together

Throwdown for Cancer a.k.a. Rockin’ for Cancer

Tigertel Rotary Oakville Charity Dragon Boat Festival

Toronto Rock Lacrosse Club Charity Game

University of Waterloo Athletics Think Pink Campaign

Vs. Breast Cancer 12 Hour Softball Game

Women’s Day in Support of Breast Cancer

DONORSFRIENDS OF THE FOUNDATION $1,000 – $2,499

878291 Ontario Inc.

A Lococo’s Wholesale Ltd.

Helene Aliberti

Johanna Allen

AmEC Earth and Environmental Inc.

Applied Consumer and Clinical Evaluations Inc.

Roni Aramouni

DONORSPINK RIBBON $50,000+

James David Lang

Safeway

PARTNERS AND SUPPORTERSPINK RIBBON $50,000+

CIBC

Ford Pins To Win

Ontario’s Finest Inns & Spas

Payless ShoeSource Canada

RE/mAX Sold on a Cure

Scotiabank Group

COmmUNITY FUNDRAISING EVENTSPINK RIBBON $50,000+

Yard Sale for the Cure

York Region Breast Cancer Friends’ Celebration of Hope

DONORSGOLD RIBBON $25,000 – $49,999

IBm Employees’ Charitable Fund

The Estate of margaret Troop Vaughan

PARTNERS AND SUPPORTERSGOLD RIBBON $25,000 – $49,999

TERRA Greenhouses

COmmUNITY FUNDRAISING EVENTSGOLD RIBBON $25,000 – $49,999

11th Annual Breast Cancer Awareness Golf Tournament

Braz for the Cause

Carleton Heights Curling Club Bonspiel for Breast Cancer

Coldwater Curl for the Cure

mildred Williams International Driving Series

The Guy Show – The Great Shave Off

Synchro Swim Ontario’s Burning Bright for Breast Cancer

Tirecraft Annual Charity Breast Cancer Golf Classic

Toronto maple Leafs Pink Ribbon Night

DONORSSILVER RIBBON $10,000 – $24,999

Astrazeneca Canada Inc.

BmO Employee Charitable Foundation

BmO Financial Group

Ernst & Young LLP

manulife Financial

murray Family Charitable Foundation

Partners + Edell

Sanofi Pasteur Limited

PARTNERS AND SUPPORTERSSILVER RIBBON $10,000 – $24,999

Akendi Inc.

CB Richard Ellis

Fields

Harry Winston Diamond Corporation

Playtex Limited

RE/mAX Ontario-Atlantic Canada Inc.

COmmUNITY FUNDRAISING EVENTSSILVER RIBBON $10,000 – $24,999

Agellan’s masquerade Party

Cakes for Cancer Afternoon Tea

Circle of Friends Golf Tournament

Convoy for a Cure

Durham College’s Power of Pink Casual Day

Fore the Cure – Gowing/Ditchfield Golf Tournament

Go Bald for Breast Cancer – Colin mcmahon

Halton Board of Education and Halton Catholic Board of Education, Partners in Pink

Jennifer Widbur memorial Hockey Tournament

Jo Thorman memorial Golf Tournament

Kick 4 the Cure

Knit for the Cure Celebration

Ladies Volleyball Tournament for Breast Cancer

miehm Team’s Army of Angels 1st Annual Dance

Pink n Pretty Affair

Raising the Bar Program – Curves

Scotiabank Group Women’s Charity Challenge Golf Tournament

Sister Act Annual Silent Auction

“Think Pink Week” Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning

Tubbs Romp to Stomp Out Breast Cancer Snowshoe Series

DONORSBRONzE RIBBON $5,000 – $9,999

Algoma Central Corporation

Alstom Canada Inc.

Helen Best

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Bell Canada Employees and Retirees

Broadridge Financial Services

Capgemini Canada Inc.

Charities Aid Foundation America

Peter Deeb

James Dukes

Donald Dupuis

michel Dupuis

Diane Dupuis-Laviolette

Empire Life

Enchantress Hosiery

Farm mutual Reinsurance Plan Inc.

Forget & matthews LLP

FundServ Inc.

David Godin

Ori Goldman

Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

max Haines

HB Group Insurance management Ltd.

In memory of Lucie Tuch Homburger

Ingenico Canada Ltd.

In memory of Barb (Hanes) Kennedy

John A. Lederer

The Legal Link Corporation

Stan Lesley

Sam Lima

David Logan

London Life Insurance Company

Derek Longman

David massel m.D.

The mcColl-Early Foundation

mcCormick Rankin Corporation (a member of mmm Group)

Steven mcGirr

mabel and Gordon mcmillen

mSCm LLP

munich Life management Corporation

Judith munro

Rik Parkhill

margot Pawley

Randstad Interim Inc.

mary Rossiter

Scotiabank Group

Francis Sears

Brian Semkowski

SmT Services

* Includes all donors and supporters who contributed $1,000 or more between April 1, 2008, and march 31, 2009. Please accept our sincere apologies for any errors or omissions in our donor and supporter listings. We would appreciate your assistance in correcting our records. Please contact us with any changes.


35THANK YOU TO OUR DONORS AND SUPPORTERS

Violetta Lewandowski

Shelley Linkie

Rick Lunny

Lynda Williams macAllister

macKenzie Financial Corporation

Anthony mainelli

Cesira martella

Paul martin, RE/mAX Solid Gold Realty (II) Ltd.

Velma martinelli

Charles massel

Patricia A. massel

Frank D. mauro, Barrister & Solicitor

Erin mcBride

Lorne mcBride

Erin mcCabe

Lynn mcDonald

Allison mcEwan

marcia mcEwen

Donald mcFarlane

mike mcGahan

mcKellar Structured Settlements Inc.

Daryl mcLean

Ian and Simone mcWalter

medi Group Inc.

David melnik

Lori Ann miehm

John millar

Theresa miller

Sarah and Adam misseri

Kelly mitchell

Pamela mitchell

David moncur

Nancy more

William morris

Gordon morrison

Nancy morrison

Kathy morrissey

Lorna morrow

Kathleen motton

John murray

Darcy Nagel

Namasco Limited

mary m. Nesbitt

Newell Rubbermaid Office Products

Carol A. Norris, RE/mAX First Realty Ltd.

Lesley North

Laird Notman

Rick Nugent

Georgeta Nunes

Ontario Power Generation

Heather O’Regan, RE/mAX Professionals Inc.

Darlene O’Rourke

zoi Ouzas, RE/mAX Garden City Realty Inc.

Carol Owen

Strat Padazis

Heena Panda

michel Paquin

Frank Patania

Pentad Construction

murray and Lee Peters

Petro Viron Inc.

Luisa Piccirilli, RE/mAX West Realty Inc.

PinkHearts

Nadir Pirani

Liz Pires

Thomas Popp

prairieFyre Software Inc.

Predictive Success Corporation

John Prior

Patrick Probert

Anthony Puppi

Carol Puttock

Queen/Dundas West Animal Hospital

Quest Plastics Limited

Kevin Rahija

Joe Ramkissoon

mary G. Raposo

Dennis Rath

Nancy Rector

Connie Reeve

Florence Reilly

John Ricci

Stephen Rider

Jo-Ann Ritchie

mark Robson

Lindsay Rodenkirchen

Roma’s Hospitality Centre

michael Ross

mary Roy, RE/mAX First Realty Ltd.

Donna Rutherford

Bonnie Rymerson

Lisa Sabetti

Stella Saul

Save Our Women

Diana Savelli

Phil Schiedel

Elaine Seeley

Sentry Select Capital Inc.

Seven Star Express Line Ltd.

margaret and Dan Sharp

Alexandra Shaw

Howard Sidsworth

SIG Electronics

Jose Silva

Serena Simms

Sacha Singh

Sling-Choker manufacturing Sault Ltd.

Douglas Smith

David Smye

Sofaweb.com Inc.

Stantec Consulting

Starbucks

Jason Stark

Amanda Stephens

Elizabeth Stepniewicz

Ruth Sternberg

Stevenson Hunt Financial Services Inc.

Ian Stewart

Stikeman Elliott LLP

Sandra Stranges

David Suchon

Superstars Entertainment

Supremex

Robert and Donna Sutherland

Don Swainson

Isaac Tamssot

Gavin and Kathy Tanner

TD Bank Financial Group

Christy Teasdale

Tenen Investments Limited

Tetra Pak Canada Inc.

Thomas, Large & Singer Inc.

Rita Thompson

Susan Thomson

Dan Thorsley

TJ Land Development

TKC-CNC Foundation

Tony’s Oil Inc.

Torkin manes LLP

Toronto Hydro Employees’ Charity Trust

Toskan Casale Foundation

Toyotoshi Group Canada

Transamerica Life Canada

Linda Treen

Trend marketing

UBS Securities Canada Inc.

Uniworld Logistics

USW moncton Fund

Allan Van Dyke

David Van Elslander

Dr. Shailendra Verma

VFT Canada Inc.

Vifloor Canada Ltd.

Paul Waldbrook

William Walker

Brian E. Ward, By Design Financial Services Inc.

Ernie Ward, RE/mAX Realty Specialists Inc.

Padraig Warde

Waterous, Holden, Amey, Hitchon LLP

Carol Weaver

Wedge Capital management

Allan Weinbaum

Welded Tube of Canada

White Pine Electric Ltd.

David White

John Whitehead

Whiteoak Ford Lincoln Sales Limited

The Wholesale Outlet

Caroline Wight

Wilrep Ltd.

Albert E. Wilson

Sheldon Wiseman

Sharon Wood

Joan and Ted Woods

Ken Woolfson

Jeff and Laxmi Wordham

Yamaha motor Canada Ltd.

Stephen Yeung

Lisa and Jason Yip

York Fire & Casualty Insurance

Jeffrey Young

murray Young

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mabel Au

Jarrod and Emily Bachoo

maureen Bailey-Lee

Diana Baker

Richard Baker

William Ballard

Bassett & Walker International Inc.

Ken Bast

Sonia Baxendale

Bedells Frozen Foods Ltd.

Geoffrey S. Belsher

Emilio Belvedere

The Benjamin Foundation

Leslie Bennett

Jim Beqaj

Geoff Bertram

Sherill Besser

Robin Bienfait

Black & mcDonald Limited

Jean Blacklock

Blacktop Cruizers Club

Doriana Blagonic

Annie Blais

Abe Blankenstein

The Boland Foundation

Julie Ann Bond

mike Bondy

Ron Bottos

Bowater Thunder Bay Sawmill Charitable Committee

Lori Bowers

Catherine A. Brayley

Bremardi Construction Corp.

Alan Brooks

Adam Brown

m. A. Burt

Frank Campanelli

Lynn D. Campbell

Rick Campbell

Debra Campkin

Canada Health Infoway Employees/Les Employés d’Inforoute Santé du Canada

Cancer Care Ontario

CanReg Inc.

Cantwell Cullen & Company Inc.

Canyon Creek Chophouse

Carisma Florists

Janice Carter

Cascades Canada Inc.

Dwight Casson

Karen Caughell

CAW TCA Canada-Airline Local 2002

Anne Ceccchetto

Centis Tile & Terrazzo Inc.

Chi K. Chan

Andy Chelminski

Tom Cheney

David Chilton

James R. Christie

Employees of The Circuit City Store Support Centre

CNB Computers Inc.

Nelson Coelho

mirella Colaricci

Bruce Cole

Theresa Coleman

Collect Canada Ltd.

Compuware Corporation of Canada

Concert Properties

Carol Conroy

Evelyn Convery

Dr. Geoffrey R. Conway memorial Foundation (Canada)

Donald and Phyllis Cooper

The Co-operators Group Ltd.

Counsel Corporation

CPC Healthcare Communications

CRA/API Committee

John Craig

Crestview Investment Corporation

Richard L. Cummings

Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing

Cyberbahn Inc.

D.R.D. Construction Services

Raymond Danniels

Deborah D’Arcy

Darlington Ladies Recreational Soccer

Nandini DasGupta

Joe Dasilva

Catherine Daultrey, RE/mAX Real Estate Centre Inc.

Dell Direct

Cintia De Souza, RE/mAX Central Corp.

John E. DeOliveira, RE/mAX Central Corp.

Sivakumaran Devarajan

Gino DiGeso, RE/mAX Realtron Realty Inc.

marlene DiGiuseppe

Joe Dillon

Don Hyde marine Ltd.

Robert Dorrance

Joyce and Pyar Dossal

Philip Duchen

Jennifer Duchesne

Annette Duksztra

Joan Duncan-mcLeish

Peter Dunlop

Christine Dunsmore

Ron Eisenberg

Eising Greenhouses & Garden Centre

Philip Emond

margo Enns

Equifax Canada Inc.

Carla Fabbro

Filippo Falbo

Phyllis and Irving Feldman

Joao Ferreira

Silvio Ferri

Fiera Foods Company

Fleetwood metal Industries Inc.

Allan R. and Elaine Francis

Leah and Harvey Fruitman

Wendy Garner

In memory of Francine Gauthier

moe Gdo

Karen Genge

Genworth Financial Canada

Alastair & Diana Gillespie Foundation

Christopher Gilliss

Global International Inc.

Goodman and Company Investment Counsel Ltd.

Jane Goodman

Susan Goodman

Andrea Gostlin

michael Graf

In memory of Denise Boiteo Graham

Norman K. Graham

The Great Gulf Homes Charitable Foundation

Howard Green

Sharon Grosman

Annalie Grounds

H & R Developments

Darcy Hall

Halton Imaging Associates

Katharin Harkins

Kim Harle

Harris Sheaffer LLP

michael Hawkeswood

Haywood Securities Inc.

Health Impact Inc. (Dr. David Goldstein)

Kevin Heffernan

Cory Herbert, RE/mAX Realty Enterprises Inc.

Brad Hinkelman

Brenda Hoffman

marion V. Holmes

Jayson Horner

Este and Ivor Hughes

Tom Hunt, RE/mAX County Town Realty Inc.

Shona Hunter

IBEW Local 586

Industrie musicale Inc.

Cydia Isaac

ITG Canada Corp.

J.H. Ryder machinery Ltd.

Lynn Jackson

Bruce Jago

Jeffrey Environmental Consultants Inc.

margaret Jensen

Joel mechanical Inc.

Karen Johnson

Dr. Suhas B. Joshi

K&L Construction (Ontario) Ltd.

Cathy Kaplansky-Gold

Barry Kent

Sean Kilpatrick

Kimberly-Clark Inc.

Liz Kinsman

Suzanne Kiraly

michael Krupanszky

Claire O. Kyle

La Farge Canada Inc.

Lakeside Logistics

The Larkins Family Foundation

David Lazzarato

Ann Leibel

Frank Leo, RE/mAX West Realty Inc.

John Leong

Tracey Leslie

Simon & Courtenay Lester

Roy Levine

Tomasz Lewandowski


37STAFFING THE CAUSE | VISION

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FOR THE 38 MEMBERS OF THE ONTARIO REGION’S STAFF, WORKING FOR THE FOUNDATION MEANS MORE THAN PUTTING IN LONG HOURS AT THE OFFICE. THEY VOLUNTEER FOR THE CAUSE, TOO. EACH YEAR, THEY COMMIT THEIR TIME, TALENT AND ENERGY TO FUNDRAISING FOR THE FOUNDATION.

Our aim for our second annual staff campaign in 2008

was to achieve 100% participation, and we met our goal.

• Compared with the previous year, staff participation

rose by 14 per cent.

• Funds donated by staff rose by $2,103 to a total

of $7,456.

• The number of staff members contributing through

payroll deductions increased by 17 per cent.

Splitting off into four creative teams, our staff planned

a week of activities designed to promote donations to

the cause. “We had a scavenger hunt and a Guess the

Number of m&m’s in the Jar contest,” says Catherine

Nguyen, Administrative Assistant. A big thermometer

on the bulletin board tracked the progress of donations.

The week’s highlight was an auction in which staff could

bid on services offered by other staff. “For example, you

could bid on having a latte delivered every day to your

desk for a week, having a tiered cake custom-baked

and decorated for you, or having a brunch for four at

the home of a staff member,” says Nguyen. By the end

of the week, staff participation met the 100% goal.

STAFF LIST*marie-José Barrette

Vince Bowman

mark Brogno

michelle Brum

meagan Cameira

Judy Chu

Lindsay Crosby

Ellen DesRues

Cheryl Dobinson

Caroline Dobson

Jennifer Duchesne

Heather Earle

Beth Easton

Joanne Fraraccio

Natalie Gierman

michelle Grouchy

Jill Hamilton

mary Claire morgan

Shyrose Janmohamed

Leigh Jasmine

Kirsten Keil-mehlenbacher

Alysha Kropf

Cheryl Lewis-Thurab

Albana Lucka

Erin mcBride

magali meagher

Emma mitchell

Jennifer modica

Lourdes moreno

Catherine Nguyen

Pamela Quirk

Sophia Reid

Naomi Rose

Sylvia Scarsella

Deanna Slapack

Sarah Tessier

Liz Worth

Yvonne Yeoh

*As of march 31, 2009

STAFFING THE CAUSEOUR VISIONOur vision is to create a future without breast cancer.

OUR mISSIONAs the leading national volunteer-based organization dedicated to creating a future without breast cancer,

the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation works collaboratively to fund, support and advocate for:

• Relevant and innovative research

• meaningful education and awareness programs

• Early diagnosis and effective treatment

• And a positive quality of life for those living with breast cancer

REALIzING OUR mISSIONWe believe a future without breast cancer is achievable. In accomplishing our mission, we are

committed to serve as:

A TRUSTED LEADER

Promoting the highest values, principles and practices to ensure accountability and effectiveness.

A RESOURCEFUL CATALYST

Promoting innovation and supporting meaningful and relevant work in research and programs,

from prevention to palliation.

AN EFFECTIVE ADVOCATE

Demonstrating our commitment to those touched by breast cancer, voicing the need for a positive

quality of life today, and in the future.

A RESPECTFUL PARTNER

Collaborating with the community, donors and sponsors; working within a network of organizations

involved in the breast cancer field; actively engaging volun teers, including survivors, to ensure that

we maximize our collaborative efforts for the cause.

The Campaign Committee Team Victorious Secret Team We Can Beat ItJill Hamilton bidding

THE CANADIAN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION – ONTARIO REGION

20 Victoria Street, 6th Floor, Toronto, Ontario m5C 2N8

Tel 416.815.1313 Toll-Free 1.866.373.6313 Fax 416.815.1766

www.cbcf.org/ontario

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