The Lock Out Cancer campaign will start on May 1 for the Windsor Cancer Centre Foundation and one of their ambassadors doesn’t hold back on the reality of her fight with cancer. “There’s a stigma out there that only older people can get it,” says Tawnya Jacob, who is just 28 years old. In March 2020 she was diagnosed with Stage 1 breast cancer. “We caught it early,” she says. After her husband noticed a strange lump on her right breast. After 16 rounds of chemo over 22 weeks at the Windsor Cancer Centre, Jacob then underwent a double mastectomy in September 2020. “I’ll be honest. I was very terrified to have that part of me taken away,” says Jacob.
The WE-SPARK health institute has awarded 15 research grants worth more than $287,000 to promote research and health education projects across Windsor-Essex region.
WINDSOR, ONT. The Grow On Windsor campaign has surpassed its goal with more than $340,000 raised for new equipment at the cancer centre. Throughout the month of November, the Windsor-Essex community participated, donated, and organized events to raise the funds in support of Grow On. “We are so humbled to see the tremendous support from our community and we are equally honoured that over 30 local organizations hosted fundraisers in support of Grow On Windsor this year and helped us surpass our goal,” executive director Houida Kassem said in a news release. The funds raised this year will allow the Windsor Cancer Centre Foundation to purchase new equipment to help patients receiving radiation treatment at the cancer centre: