MMC Packaging raised over $39,000 for the "Ride to Conquer Cancer" event, benefiting the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, Canada.  Ten MMC employees participated in the 4th annual fund raising event.  The participants rode over 200 kilometres through the Quebec countryside with an overnight camp in Trois-Rivières.

“For MMC, the number of kilometres is not really a challenge when one thinks about what all cancer patients have to go through” says Mr. Ghislain Demers, General Manager of MMC Packaging.

The money raised will help fund cancer research and care at the Segal Cancer Centre at the Jewish General Hospital and throughout Quebec. Funds will be used to support research and new technologies in the areas of molecular diagnostics, functional imaging, biomarkers, molecular target discovery and validation, and advanced targeted radiation therapy. There are few cancer centres in the world where a strong combination of researchers and highly skilled and motivated clinicians exist under one roof.

Participants have already signed up for next year’s event and the team is looking forward to surpassing their objective.