To: fanfan
Cancer care: Radiation therapy should begin within 10 working days. Is it common to wait longer than that? That would be an atrocious human-rights violation.
4 posted on
04/04/2005 11:16:02 AM PDT by
untenured
To: untenured
Welcome to the great white waste of time. :-(
8 posted on
04/04/2005 11:27:11 AM PDT by
fanfan
(" The liberal party is not corrupt " Prime Minister Paul Martin)
To: untenured
Cancer care: Radiation therapy should begin within 10 working days. I was wondering what they meant by that, "within" what? diagnosis,surgery, first consult..etc
12 posted on
04/04/2005 11:35:02 AM PDT by
FarmerW
To: untenured
Cancer care: Radiation therapy should begin within 10 working days.
Is it common to wait longer than that? That would be an atrocious human-rights violation.
For some provinces and some types of cancer, yes. Statistics Canada reports half of prostate cancer patients in Ontario waited more than 6 weeks.
http://secure.cihi.ca/cihiweb/en/pub_login_prtwg_DM_32b-DM_e.html
Other sources report that the median wait in Quebec is 12 weeks. I agree that is atrocious.
15 posted on
04/04/2005 12:04:20 PM PDT by
AdrianR
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