Province announces plans for new cancer centre in Nanaimo

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B.C. Premier David Eby and Health Minister Adrian Dix announced the approval Friday, saying a business plan is now in the works to determine the project's size and budget.

The province says the new centre at the Nanaimo Regional General Hospital will offer radiation therapy, an outpatient ambulatory care unit and a new tomography imaging machine. It will also house a new radiation-treatment space with four shielded treatment rooms. While the project budget has yet to be determined, Dix said cancer centres of this size typically cost between $200 and $300 million.The announcement comes one day after the health minister visited Kamloops to announce the province would build a new cancer care centre in that city. The new centre at the Royal Inland Hospital will include radiation therapy, meaning patients will no longer have to travel the roughly two-hour trip south to Kelowna for the treatment, Dix said.

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