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Thank you so much for your support of The Smiling Blue Skies Cancer Fund and The Smiling Blue Skies Fund for Innovative Cancer Research. Since the spring of 2001, we have been supporting OVC Pet Trust’s quest to find more and better ways to deal with and understand the complex and devastating disease of cancer.
Thanks to special people like you, to date, we have raised over $2 million!!
I am so happy that we have been able to continue to support the Clinical Trials Coordinator position within OVC’s Health Sciences Centre. This role is so critical to the work of Smiling Blue Skies and helps facilitate collaboration between cancer researchers at OVC, and outside organizations focused on finding even more creative solutions to cancer treatment.
The OVC Health Sciences Centre at the Ontario Veterinary College is the only Canadian veterinary school included in the Comparative Oncology Trials Consortium, which is part of the National Cancer Institute, a network of 20 academic veterinary oncology centres.
Thanks to you, there has been an increase in the number of pets and their owners participating in a variety of clinical trials, and there are almost 20,000 blood and tumour samples stored in OVC’s tumour bank. These are so integral to the work of researchers and future studies.
Right now, you are helping to fund studies in the areas of Lymphoma, Soft Tissue Sarcoma, and Acute Myeloid Leukemia, and specific studies including the non-invasive detection and quantification of circulating tumour cells in dogs with appendicular osteosarcoma, the evaluation of sentinel lymph nodes in dogs with oral tumours, and the prognostication of canine T-cell lymphoma.
Smiling Blue Skies continues to offer 24/7 support to anyone whose life has been touched by cancer. It does not matter where you live. We will try to help in any way we can.
We are all kindred spirits. Together, we can stretch our wings and soar, reaching beyond the bluest skies and the brightest of stars, to take a bite out of cancer, on behalf of the precious pets and people in our lives. Long live blue skies where HOPE is a kite and dreams really do come true.
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