The Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre will soon install new technology to enable earlier detection of some cancers.
The provincial government is putting up more than $1 million to construct a space for a positron emission tomography scanner, also known as a PET-CT. Cancer Care Ontario will fund the $2.7 million cost of the unit which is expected to be operational by the summer of 2023.
This advanced technology uses molecular imaging to detect cancers, such as lung, breast and colon.
In future, the PET-CT can also be used to assess other conditions, including heart disease.
RVH will be the only hospital between Newmarket and Sudbury to offer this technology. It should be up and running by the summer of 2023.
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After announcing almost $4 million in funding for a PET-CT scanner and its associated renovations, MPPs Doug Downey and Andrea Khanjin joined Janice Skot, RVH President and CEO, staff and physicians in one of RVH’s Imaging suites. From left to right: Dr. Gord Paul, RVH radiologist and Nuclear Medicine Clinical Lead.; Charlotte Wallis, Chair, RVH Board of Directors; Heather Gillis, RVH Operations Director, Medical Imaging & Laboratory Medicine; Janice Skot, RVH President and CEO; Dr. Drew Schemmer, RVH Chief of Medical Imaging; Doug Downey, MPP for Barrie—Springwater—Oro-Medonte; Andrea Khanjin, MPP for Barrie—Innisfil; and David Wilson, RVH Manager, Medical Imaging. (RVH Photo)