The B.C. Cancer Agency unveiled yesterday a new tool in the fight against cancer.
The PET/CT scanner is the second at the agency and will double patient capacity, said the parliamentary secretary for seniors to the minister of health, Dr. Margaret MacDiarmid.
“I’m looking forward to the new developments I know will happen in cancer imaging, as well as the advances for cancer patients,” said MacDiarmid.
The agency will now be able to conduct 6,200 scans annually.
The B.C. government pledged $ 1.5 million per year to help maintain the new apparatus and the B.C. Cancer Foundation raised $ 3.2 million to purchase it.
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