The Hanover and District Hospital is partnering with the Grey Bruce Health Services.
Hanover surgeon Doctor Hector Duque will soon be able to perform life saving surgeries on women with breast cancer.
He is currently be trained at St. Joseph’s in Hamilton to perform a procedure that involves removing cancerous breast lumps along with their sentinel node through the use of a gamma probe.
Grey Bruce Health Services will first use nuclear medicine to localize the sentinel node and than send patients to Doctor Duque to have them removed.
Vice President of Patient Care Services Reta Sproule calls it very exciting for both the hospital and patients.
She says the state of the art technology will greatly benefit women and cut down on wait times while at the same time provide Hanover’s surgeon with a new skill.
Sproule adds in an effort to cut down on wait times in urban centres, there is a strong possibility that they may refer their patients to Hanover for the procedure as well.
Once Doctor Duque’s training wraps up and arrangements have been completed with the Owen Sound Hospital — he will begin offering the new procedure in Hanover.
