Donations fund specialized MRI for Manitoba
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Manitoba will be one of the first provinces to get a specialized MRI for cancer patients thanks to private donors.
Ontario and Alberta have the enhanced MRI that produces better images of tumours to help oncologists and researchers customize treatment and track the aggressiveness of the disease.
The $8.4-million machine will be installed at CancerCare Manitoba within eight months.
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“This MRI that will be housed in CancerCare Manitoba will assist cancer treatment planning to bring this precision into the treatment,” said Dr. Sri Navaratnam, president and CEO, CancerCare Manitoba.
“Radiation is one of the core treatments for cancer, along with other systemic therapy and surgery. For this to be of most benefit, it must be delivered precisely to the cancer or to the tumour. That not only improves the outcome and the effectiveness of the treatment, but also reduces the side effects of treatment,” CancerCare CEO Dr. Sri Navaratnam said at a news conference at CancerCare’s McDermot Avenue headquarters Thursday.
“This MRI that will be housed in CancerCare Manitoba will assist cancer treatment planning to bring this precision into the treatment.”
The total cost of the project is $10 million. The provincial government will cover the $510,000 annual operational cost.
The province is also paying $150,000 to staff the MRI unit on evenings and weekends.
Health Minister Audrey Gordon called it an investment in “healing the health-care system.”
“The unit will support advanced research in the province, which will bolster our ongoing efforts to recruit and retain radiation oncologists, medical physicists and other highly skilled staff,” Gordon said.
NDP health critic Uzoma Asagwara said the investment was made only after multiple cuts to cancer treatment under the Tory government.
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Health Minister Audrey Gordon called it an investment in “healing the health-care system.”
“The Stefanson PC government’s record on CancerCare is cuts and broken promises. They cut millions from CancerCare, closed cancer clinics in northeast and northwest Winnipeg, and cancelled plans to build a new CancerCare headquarters in Winnipeg.”
CancerCare consolidated from six centres to four in 2020 by closing locations in Seven Oaks and Concordia. Plans to move CancerCare to a new facility in 2017 were cancelled by the Tories under Brian Pallister.
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