Please take a moment to remember Lilah Brehon, one of the three women who founded the HOPE Cancer Help Centre 25 years ago. After a long battle with cancer, Brehon died at St. Paul's Hospital on May 10, 2014. Her funeral will be held at Grosvenor Park United Church at 10:00 a.m. Friday, May 23.

Lilah Brehon was a wonderful person, whose energy and spirit built HOPE into an organization that reaches out to all cancer survivors, regardless of their type or diagnosis. She was an integral part of the Race for Recovery. Always putting others before herself, she won the Saskatoon YWCA's "Woman of Distinction" award in 2001, along with HOPE's other two co-founders, Marie Thiesson and Olga Stefaniuk. 

"I always hated when people who, as soon as they heard somebody had cancer, decided they were going to die the next day," said Brehon, in a Saskatoon Express interview last year. "So I wanted to make this group all that time ago. You have to think positively because if you do it will help your immune system." (Here's a PDF version of that article - Lilah Brehon (April 2013).pdf (65.54 kb))

HOPE Cancer Help Centre's March 2013 newsletter features the 18th Annual Race for Recovery! Read more about the race, dedicated in honour of Lilah Brehon. Learn more about HOPE Cancer Help Centre's supporters, including the Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists, Ned Powers, Garry Manson's family, and Breast Friends. Also take a look at the upcoming workshops, presentations, and events at HOPE Cancer Help Centre in Saskatoon. 

March 2013 Final.pdf (2.39 mb)

HOPE Cancer Help Centre’s annual Race for Recovery is set.  Join the hundreds of participants who will have gathered pledges in preparation of a long-time community fundraising event. Walk a 2 km or 5km course. Run or jog a 5km or 10 km course.  It’s all for fun and for a great community cause.

Registration gets underway at 9 am at the Vimy Memorial Band shell in Kiwanis Park followed by entertainment at 10 am and opening ceremonies at 10:30 am with the Race for Recovery leaving the starting line at 11 am.

Enjoy the fun, food & festivities with activities for families and face painting for the kids. This will be the 17th year that the fundraising event is held in Saskatoon.

Volunteers are most welcomed as are the more than 400 walkers and runners who raise money for cancer patients undergoing treatment and the effects of their treatment.  

Momentum is building for The 17^th Annual Race for Recovery in support of HOPE Cancer Help Centre to be held in Saskatoon on Sunday, June 24^th.  Walkers and runners will converge on the banks of the South Saskatchewan River at the Vimy Ridge Memorial Band shell to kick off the annual event.

The Race for Recovery is an annual fundraising event in Saskatoon

raising money for direct support to people who are in cancer treatment.

All people – All Cancers describes the approach taken by HOPE. Many cancer patients in treatment are faced with the sudden realization that their everyday life must come to an abrupt halt when they are faced with intervention treatments and they are without benefits, resources or family financial support. HOPE catches as many cancer patients as possible when they fall through the cracks of support. Join the Race for Recovery and make a difference.

Sunday morning June 24^th. Run, walk or volunteer. Someone needs your support.

Contact HOPE Cancer Help Centre and sign up for the 17^th Annual Race for Recovery.