From Patient to Clinical Trial Partner

At 74, Allen Davey of Wilkie, Saskatchewan, walks two miles a day, works on the family farm with his sons and grandsons, and recently upgraded his golf clubs.

But in 2014 a routine blood pressure check that was dangerously high revealed a life-changing diagnosis: renal cell carcinoma, or kidney cancer. Surgery followed but two years later, the cancer
spread to his lungs. Allen was told he had Stage 4 cancer and 2.5 years to live. Treatment options were limited – but hope was not.

“It sent us into a tailspin,” recalls his wife Laura, “but he received exceptional care at the Saskatoon Cancer Centre.”