As of June 4, 58 cancer patients had been identified as eligible to receive treatment in the U.S. So far, 13 have turned down the offer.
B.C. cancer patients have started arriving at one of two U.S. clinics this week for radiation therapy, according to the lead oncologist at the North Cascade Cancer Center in Bellingham.
The patients went through their initial consultation, he said, and will return in 10 days to two weeks to start radiation therapy. That means patients will likely return home and make a second trip to Bellingham to start treatment. The Ministry of Health said as of June 4, 58 cancer patients had been identified as eligible to receive treatment in the U.S. Of those, 13 had turned down the offer either because they wanted to continue care in B.C. or were not able to cross the border or had a companion who could not.
The North Cascade Cancer Center, which has been operating since April of 2022, has one linear accelerator — the equipment that delivers the radiation therapy — that can treat between 45 and 50 patients a day, said Polishchuk, who grew up in Vancouver but completed medical school in the U.S. and has been practising medicine in Bellingham since 2016. The clinic currently sees 30 to 35 patients a day, which leaves capacity to see an additional 15 B.C. patients a day, he said.
Camille Currie, founder of health advocacy network B.C. Health Care Matters and the B.C. Green candidate for the Langford-Juan de Fuca byelection, said she’s not surprised few people have volunteered to travel to Bellingham. Polishchuk said he knows radiation therapy is a stressful experience, which is why he and his fellow oncologists are doing their best to make B.C. patients feel comfortable.
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