A DECADE OF TRANSFORMING
CANCER CARE

Longtime rider and supporter, Margot Spafford (pictured), at the 10th annual BMO Ride for Cancer. Hosted by the QEII Foundation, BMO Ride for Cancer. is ranked Canada’s #6 peer-to-peer event by the P2P Professional Forum.


A DECADE OF TRANSFORMING CANCER CARE

Longtime rider and supporter, Margot Spafford (pictured), at the 10th annual BMO Ride for Cancer. Hosted by the QEII Foundation, BMO Ride for Cancer. is ranked Canada’s #6 peer-to-peer event by the P2P Professional Forum.

$2.6 MILLON

NET

RAISED THROUGH 2024 BMO RIDE FOR CANCER EVENT

September 28, 2024, marked the 10th anniversary of BMO Ride for Cancer, where more than 1,000 cyclists, 200 volunteers and 12,611 generous donors helped raise $2.6 million net for QEII cancer care — smashing all previous fundraising records and making BMO Ride history.

The Ramia family stepped up in a big way, contributing a $600,000 matching gift in support of liquid biopsy research; a revolutionary approach that will help detect whether a patient is cancer-free after surgery or the earliest signs that their cancer has returned all through a simple blood test.

Thanks to donors like the Ramia family, who contributed an additional $50,000 on top of their $600,000 matching gift, and our 2024 BMO Ride community, this liquid biopsy project has the potential to spare patients from unnecessary treatments, improve survival rates through earlier detection of cancer recurrence and keep care closer to home as patients can undergo this blood test in any community in Nova Scotia.

Having this non-invasive test available for cancer patients will be life-changing for them. To save them from unnecessary radiation or chemo treatment is huge. We live here, work here and have raised our families here: it’s important that the best health care be available here.

— Joe Ramia, donor and a local leader in the development industry

WHAT DONORS ARE MAKING POSSIBLE:

Funding more than $13 million worth of cancer-fighting equipment, technology and spaces at the QEII Cancer Centre since 2015 through BMO Ride for Cancer.

As Atlantic Canada’s largest cycling fundraiser, our BMO Ride community is impacting nearly every cancer patient who receives care at the region’s most specialized cancer treatment hospital.

Our 2024 matching gifts by the Ramia family, an anonymous donor in honour and memory of Patti Davidson, and Margaret Guy in honour and memory of Robert McKelvie are revolutionizing cancer care at the QEII

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