12,000-square-foot facility has been called “a beacon of hope” by B.C. Cancer Foundation
Victoria’s Campbell family has pledged a $500,000 matching gift to the B.C. Cancer Foundation’s $15-million campaign to fund cancer research and a new supportive-care facility on Richmond Road, across the street from Royal Jubilee Hospital and B.C. Cancer’s Victoria centre.
The campaign will also help the existing centre’s groundbreaking research and clinical trials, with $3.7 million of the total raised supporting such work as immunotherapy research and cutting-edge prostate-cancer research by Dr. Abraham Alexander. Their parents, Jo and the late Alex Campbell — the co-founder of Thrifty Foods — chaired a 2011 fundraising campaign that brought about a major expansion at Victoria’s B.C. Cancer site.
Campbell said his family’s involvement with the foundation goes back to 2001, when his father chaired the Daring to Believe Campaign that raised $6.5 million.“The foundation is a great organization to work with,” said Lorne Campbell. “You really see all the good they do for people. They are a great group to get behind.”
“We’re so grateful for the Campbell family’s generosity towards enhancing care for local patients and families,” said William Litchfield, the foundation’s executive director for Vancouver Island.
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