B.C. health minister Adrian Dix provides a one year update into the province’s 10 year cancer action plan.
“We are building four new cancer centres, B.C. cancer centres to bring cancer care closer to home in our province,” the health minister said.Reading from 27 pages of notes, Dix provided a lot of detailed information on improvements being made to cancer care in B.C. “We’re increasing treatments such as radiation, chemotherapy , and surgery faster than last year. We are keeping our cancer centres open more hours to deliver more care,” Dix said.“We’re delivering radiation therapy to 856 more patients this year, a 6.4 per cent increase in one year. We’ve delivered IV chemotherapy to 801 more patients across cancer centres this year. That’s an eight-per cent increase.
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