On World Cancer Day, BC Cancer in Kelowna is implementing a new medical treatment aimed at reducing lymphedema, a swelling common after lymph node removal. This innovative procedure, typically offered in larger centers, is now accessible to patients in the Interior. The advancement coincides with numerous strides in cancer treatment, offering improved survival rates and quality of life for patients.
Feb. 4 is World Cancer Day . It also happens to be the day the latest medical treatment is being implemented at BC Cancer in Kelowna . Klaudia Van Emmerik has more.“When I felt that lump I just got that pit in my stomach,” the now-40-year old North Okanagan woman said.“I thought that was it for me, ” Kreuger told Global News. “My initial reaction was am I going to die and then I thought of my daughter and then I thought about my husband.
Those advancements and B.C.’s first surgical oncology research program launched last fall in Kelowna are being highlighted on this World Cancer Day.“We can offer treatments that very likely they’re going to have a different outcome because of improvements in cancer surgery, the radiation treatments and the medical treatments that we have,” said Dr. Chris Baliski, a surgical oncologist now heading up the research program.
“The hope is that perhaps we could take the chances of swelling in the extremity down from about 30 per cent to 10 per cent,” Baliski said. “This is an innovative technique that’s typically being offered in major centers such as Toronto and Vancouver, and now we’re bringing this to Kelowna in the Interior.”Musk Starlink deal with Ontario government back on hours after threat to rip it up
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