Re: " Cancer patients lose scanner access "

[Steven Dapra <sjd@swcp.com>]

At 11:38 AM 5/6/04 -0400, Jaro wrote:

>     FW from another list, FYI . . .

 

>Cancer Patients Lose Scanner Access   The London

>Free Press, Thu 06 May 2004, By John Miner, Free Press Health Reporter  

>London cancer patients are losing access to a high-tech imaging machine that 

>can pinpoint tumours often missed by older technologies.  Dr. Jean-Luc

>Urbain, citywide head of nuclear medicine . . . had hoped to keep the

so->called PET/CT scanner operating at St. Joseph's Health Care for at

least >three more months after Ontario's cancer agency decided it wouldn't

pay the >costs of operating the machine, one of only eight in Canada.

London doctors >were able to obtain limited financing by tapping Health

Canada's Special >Access Program."



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	Shut down for lack of tax dollars.  Isn't socialized medicine wonderful?



Steven Dapra

sjd@swcp.com







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