Inspiring Stories

In December 2005 just before the holiday season, Karolanne Bolton was delivered four life-changing words. "You have breast cancer.” However, after 30 years of working in finance at London Health

Theresa Carriere is a proud mother, wife, personal trainer and basketball coach. She has shared her love of health & fitness with others for over 30 years. “I hope people would describe me as hard

World-renowned physician-scientist donates $500,000 to support targeted lung cancer therapy research During his 20-year career at London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC), Dr. Marcelo Kremenchutzky has

In January of 2014, 17- year -old Alex Rowe decided to do something a bit different for her upcoming 18th birthday. “Birthdays are my thing,” Alex says. “My mom always made a huge deal out of mine and

Gary Pooley had made the drive from his home in Waterloo to London Health Sciences Centre many times. A sense of worry and stress would always pervade these drives when his wife Karen was receiving

Olympic rower. Entrepreneur. Husband. Father. Now, add “cowboy” to Gord Henry’s resume, a term affectionately coined by London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) physician Dr. Ian Chin-Yee. Gord’s journey

When Bonita Stevenson was diagnosed with breast cancer in April of 2013, she immediately underwent surgery and was put on a rigorous schedule of chemotherapy and radiation. Within a year, she was on

Dr. Anthony Nichols is a head and neck cancer surgeon who understands the importance of donor support in finding a cure and improving patient quality of life. "You can see how you can improve patients

Coming to terms with breast cancer was just the first step for Tammy Ross and her husband, as Tammy still had to tell her children, including her eldest daughter, 11-year-old Gabrielle. In early