Prostate treatment centre renamed
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CancerCare Manitoba’s prostate treatment centre was renamed the Dr. Ernest W. Ramsey Manitoba Prostate Centre at a ceremony Friday.
Ramsey was one of the leading proponents of the creation of the centre before his death in 2001 at age 63.
His wife, Diane, and daughters, Clare and Kathy, were on hand with Premier Gary Doer for the unveiling.
Kathy Ramsey said the moment was bittersweet as it brought back fond memories of her dad.
“It’s nice to have this,” she said of the centre’s new name. “It’s a constant reminder of him in our lives.”
CancerCare Manitoba also used the occasion to announce it was launching a new prostate treatment.
Dr. Dhali Dhaliwal, head of CancerCare Manitoba, said cyrotherapy involves freezing malignant cells.
“You can kill malignant cells by cooling them and when they thaw out, they die,” he said.
He said more men will now stay in Manitoba for treatment when in the past they were sent out of province. The treatment can only be used on select patients where surgery is not possible, he added.
CancerCare Manitoba Foundation and the province are contributing a total of $325,000 towards a new ultrasound machine to be used in the therapy.
Prostate cancer is the No. 1 male cancer in Canada. A dozen Canadian men die every day from prostate cancer and 21,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. There are an estimated one million men in Canada with prostate cancer and most don’t know they have it.
bruce.owen@freepress.mb.ca