Chad's $1 Million for Myeloma

Created in memory of Chad Warren to honour his wish to raise $1 million to find a cure for Multiple Myeloma and other blood cancers. Chad was one of the youngest patients in Canada to be diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma, a cancer that starts in the plasma cells, when he was 26 years old. He was given just months to live, but with the help of new treatments, an anonymous bone marrow donor, and his own determination, he lived 9 more years and he got the most out of each day. 

Chad wanted his life to make a difference for other patients. He partnered with the VGH/UBC Hospital Foundation in Vancouver to raise awareness about the disease that he had never heard of until he was diagnosed. In the last weeks of his life, Chad wrote a blog called "Me, Myself and Myeloma" to share his story. Now Chad's family continues to encourage people to support his cause: the Hematology Research Clinical Trials Unit of the VGH/UBC Hospital Foundation.