Grand River Regional Cancer Centre - Kitchener, Ontario (cross-post)

four linear accelerators up and running as of today. This is good news
for both Kitchener and London, not so far to go for Kitchener patients
who were having to go to London for 20 minute radiation treatments and
hopefully shorter wait times for London area patients (freed up by
Kitchener patients being treated locally)
 A win-win situation.

Cross-posting to two other newsgroups, because they also apparently need
more radiation oncologists.
(or that's what they said on the news tonight)...so watch your headers
if you reply and don't want to cross-post

http://www.therecord.com/links/links_031016101632.html - part of news
item.
Thursday October 16, 2003
The Grand River centre currently has six medical oncologists who oversee
chemotherapy, and two radiation oncologists who, for the last two years,
have planned and supervised local patients' radiation treatment in
London while waiting for the centre to be completed in Kitchener.

When radiation therapy begins at Grand River next month, patients will
likely wait about four weeks from referral by an oncologist to
treatment, said Dr. Bill Evans, chief medical officer and vice-president
of Cancer Care Ontario, the co-ordinating body for the province's cancer
centres. But that could quickly increase to six weeks, depending on
demand.

Initially, Grand River will only radiate breast and prostate tumours.
Other types of cancers will be added within a few months.

The Centre's website
http://www.grandriverhospital.on.ca/grc/index.html

HTH, FYI and FWIW
J