Queensway Carleton Hospital Completes Family Cancer Centre

January 22, 2010 11:00 AM

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1,300 More Patients Each Year To Receive Treatment

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty today congratulated the Queensway Carleton Hospital on the completion of the Irving Greenberg Family Cancer Centre.

The new centre is part of the Ottawa Hospital Regional Cancer Program. It will help reduce wait times and provide personalized care, closer to home for an additional 1,300 cancer patients each year. It will provide cancer diagnosis, treatment, surgery and ambulatory support, and focus on breast, prostate and colorectal cancer.

The new centre houses three radiation treatment machines, two clinics and 33 chemotherapy spaces.

More than 60 new clinical jobs will be created when the centre opens. The first patients will be treated in early April.


Quick Facts

  • At the peak of construction, over 180 workers were employed in building the cancer centre, over 75 per cent of which were from the Ottawa region.
  • The Ontario government committed up to $82.5 million for the Irving Greenberg Family Cancer Centre, including funding for radiation equipment.
  • Cancer Care Ontario directs close to $700 million public health care dollars to hospitals and other providers for cancer services throughout the province.

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