HERE is Where
Jamie Beat
The cancer odds.

Twice.

When you hear the words “you have cancer,” life is never the same. For Jamie, it meant weeks of gruelling chemotherapy and challenging surgery, TWICE. For Melanie , it meant facing daily radiation treatments and surgery after a whirlwind breast cancer diagnosis. For both, it meant having Southlake’s Regional Cancer Centre at Southlake here in their community, so they could stay close to what matters most: home.

Since its inception, the Regional Cancer Centre has committed to making HERE the absolute best place to diagnose, treat, and survive cancer. Combining an academic hospital system’s expertise and care options with deep community connections, we balance leading-edge treatment with patient-centred care. Consistently ranked in the top three of Ontario’s 14 Cancer Centres, Southlake was named the first partner of the Princess Margaret Cancer Care Network.

HERE is Where Cancer Meets its Match.

Our Campaign

Southlake’s Regional Cancer Centre has served our communities with distinction for over a decade. However, with our population expanding and aging at a rapid rate, demand for care is increasing like never before. We must grow our capacity to minimize wait times because for cancer care, time is of the essence. We must also keep up with technological advances — we cannot face tomorrow’s challenges with yesterday’s methods in the fight against cancer. We face a tipping point. There’s where you come in.

We launched our HERE is Where Cancer Meets its Match Campaign to expand our spaces, build new capacity and bring the latest technology to the Cancer Centre, ensuring our talented clinicians can deliver the best care — and the best chance for our patients to survive their cancer — right here. With our community’s investment, we can keep care close to home.

Our Goal

With the generous support of our community, we have raised over $21M toward our $23M goal. Your thoughtful investment in the HERE is Where Cancer Meets its Match Campaign will:

• Expand Southlake’s Clinical Research and Molecular Medicine Programs, so that we no longer have to send our cancer samples to downtown hospitals for testing. Genetic testing and molecular diagnostics are revolutionizing cancer care, empowering doctors to tailor the most effective, personalized treatment plan for each patient.
• Replace end-of-life thoracic surgery equipment with specialized surgical instruments for minimally invasive procedures, ensuring cancer patients benefit from advanced techniques that result in less pain, faster recoveries, and superior outcomes

Southlake is Creating the Cancer Care you Deserve

We see a tomorrow where the demand for leading edge cancer care is greater than ever. Facing this challenge requires not only expanding our capacity to deliver care but also introducing new advanced technology to transform care. Ultimately, our goal is to ensure that every patient — like Jamie, Melanie, Alyssa, Bill and Elizabeth — when facing the battle of their lives, exhausted, anxious and ill, never have to travel to access the leading edge cancer care they need.

We know that cancer hits close to home. Care should too.

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Southlake’s Regional Cancer Centre is consistently ranked one of the top three in Ontario and is the first partner of the Princess Margaret Cancer Care Network. Click here to read more.

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