Toronto’s Sunnybrook Receives $1M to Advance New Breast Cancer Treatment

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The Breast Cancer Society of Canada has donated $1 million to speed the development of a new microbubbles and ultrasound treatment for advanced localized breast cancer, an aggressive form of the disease that typically affects women 35-45 years old and has an extremely high mortality rate. The society provided the funding to the Odette Cancer Centre at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto where pre-clinical studies are determining if combining microbubbles and ultrasound make breast tumors more responsive to chemotherapy and radiation.  READ PRESS RELEASE