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A Year in Review 2012 – 2013:
Foundations
Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation
Courage is...
striving
for
new heights
Largest single fundraising initiative
in Canadian health care
On April 12, 2012, the Princess Margaret Cancer
Foundation set a goal that no other Canadian health
care organization had ever set out to achieve.
They initiated a challenge to staff, doctors, researchers
and donors to raise $1 billion over five years — $500
million from philanthropy and $500 million from
research grants.
It is the largest single fundraising campaign in the history
of Canadian health care.
Many patients still to cure
Dr. Robert Bell, President and CEO of University Health
Network, summed up the need for this challenge by
saying, “When I began my career 25 years ago, 90 per
cent of my sarcoma patients would die within two years.
Today, 75 percent of those patients are cured of their
Joe Finley
(centre)
runs alongside his son and daughter in the annual Joe’s Team
triathlon.
(Photo: Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation)
Constable April Dequanne, Paul Alofs, Dr. Mary Gospodarowicz,
Dr. Benjamin Neel and Constable Terry Russel shown with 400 ounce
gold symbolizing the new gold standard of cancer care at Princess
Margaret.
(Photo: Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation)
cancer. This challenge is to bring the tools of
personalized cancer medicine to bear on those remaining
25 percent of patients who we need to cure.”
Overall, 64 per cent of cancer patients survive their
disease for at least five years with most being cured, but
some types of cancer — for example, lung cancer and
pancreatic cancer — are still very deadly, and more
effective detection methods and treatments are needed.
The Princess Margaret Cancer Centre is proud to lead in
the development of a new gold standard in cancer care
for all Canadians — Personalized Cancer Medicine.
The Billion Dollar Challenge will enable this centre to
develop new techniques and technology to detect cancer
earlier, diagnose it more precisely, target treatment so
it spares more healthy tissue, and support patients and
families throughout their emotional
journey with cancer.
$50-million gift
In January 2013, Emmanuelle Gattuso, Allan Slaight and the Slaight family made the largest private
gift to cancer research in Canada. Their $50 million gift will advance the Princess Margaret’s
Personalized Cancer Medicine initiative by creating a ‘superfund’ used to attract and retain the
world’s brightest minds and allow them to focus on eradicating cancer.
10 years strong
The Shoppers Drug Mart Weekend to End Women’s Cancers™ celebrated its 10th year in 2012,
and thanks to our passionate and dedicated walkers, the event has raised over $133 million to
advance scientific research and improve the treatment and care of those who face breast and
gynecological cancers.
How proud Joe would be
In 2012, the second Joe’s Team event to be held in memory of its founder raised an incredible
$1.25 million bringing the six-year total to almost $6 million in support of head and neck
cancer research.
Highlights
PMCF’s fundraising revenues 2012-2013:
■
Gross revenues:
$144.2 million
(including lotteries of $58.2 million)
■
Net revenues:
$88.6 million
(including lottery net revenue of $19.4 million
*
These are unaudited figures
