Reduced wait time for Calgary PET/CT scans
Posted Jun 4, 2012 9:23 pm.
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There’s improved access to cancer care in Southern Alberta.
A second PET/CT scanner has been added to Calgary.
The move reduces wait times for those with many types of cancer along with patients with dementia and epilepsy.
The new device is housed at Foothills Medical Centre and will perform 2,100 additional scans each year.
Health Minister Fred Horne says physicians and nurses who support those fighting cancer now have a powerful tool at their disposal which will mean better health outcomes.
The new machine reduces scan times to as little as five minutes while the original machine also gets a boost to its operating hours.
Alberta Health Services is picking up the annual operating cost.
