Your Support Makes a Difference!
All proceeds from The Big Move Cancer Ride will be directed toward
the Walker Family Cancer Centre.
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All of us are personally touched by cancer.
Today, someone in Ontario is diagnosed with cancer every eight minutes.
In the Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant LHIN it is projected 7,766 people will be diagnosed with cancer this year. By 2017, that number is expected to rise to 9,436 people diagnosed with cancer -- an increase of 21.5 per cent.
The Walker Family Cancer Centre will become the hub of a coordinated regional cancer treatment network for Niagara, serving the more than 1,200 Niagara residents newly diagnosed with cancer each year.
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While the Niagara Health System already has high quality chemotherapy and cancer surgery services - with the opening of the new Walker Family Cancer we will soon offer a full spectrum of high quality cancer treatment services in one location.
The NHS will be the host hospital partnering with Cancer Care Ontario to jointly operate this cancer treatment centre. One of Cancer Care Ontario’s key priorities is to link together providers, organizations and patients and decision makers from across the spectrum of cancer care from prevention through to end-of-life care to form a Regional Cancer Programs in each LHIN.
The Walker Family Cancer Centre will:
- Provide radiation treatment closer to home for over a 1,000 cancer patients who currently travel to Hamilton or Toronto for radiation treatment services;
- Be a multidisciplinary treatment centre providing systemic, surgical and radiation oncology services to patients in the Niagara region;
- House three radiation treatment units, 35 systemic (chemotherapy) infusion spaces and two outpatient clinics for patient consultation and assessment;
- Accommodate approximately 80,000 patient visits per year.
- Operate 12 hours a day and employ 146 full-time staff compared to the 50 now working in the Niagara Health System’s Outpatient Oncology Unit located at the St. Catharines General Site.
- Have a considerable impact on reducing the wait times for cancer diagnosis and treatment.
Artists Renderings of the Registration Area and Infusion Bay in the Walker Family Cancer Centre.