$5M for research from cancer survivor couple
Published: December 17, 2005
Edmonton cancer research got a whopping shot in the arm yesterday when a city couple - themselves cancer survivors - donated $5-million to the Cross Cancer Institute.
One of the reasons Dianne and Irving Kipnes made the donation was the pain and suffering they endured during treatment.
“You can’t forget. You don’t want to forget,” Dianne, a city psychologist, said.
Irving, 69, is a successful city businessman.
Dianne, 62, was diagnosed with cervical cancer two years ago. There’s no sign of the cancer today and she feels fit and fine. Her husband overcame prostate cancer.
The money - the largest single donation ever to the Alberta Cancer Foundation - will fund a new research chair and aid recruiting to the institute.
The institute’s director, Sandy McEwan, said the cash infusion will help attract the big guns of cancer research.
“We want to go from first division to premier league,” said McEwan, using a soccer metaphor.
Pancreatic cancer patient Tony Noujaim, 68, a co-founder of Biomira, finds himself on the other end of the research he has carried out for so long.
Biomira is a biotechnology company that develops cancer therapeutics.
“We (cancer patients) have fears, fears, fears,” said Noujaim. “We need to have some control in our lives.”
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