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RVH officially opens satellite radiation therapy unit

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RVH officially opens satellite radiation therapy unit
Shown Thursday at the opening of the Simcoe Pod at Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (RVH) are, from left, Melissa Mei, director, capacity, access and flow, with Ontario Health Central, Dana Naylor, RVH vice-president, clinical, and regional vice-president, cancer services, Ontario Health (Cancer Care Ontario), Kyle Malkoske, RVH head of medical physics and oncology information system, Gail Hunt, RVH president and CEO, Barrie Mayor Alex Nuttall, Dr. Christiaan Stevens, RVH medical director, oncology, Garth Matheson, regional liaison (Ontario), Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, Brian Liszewski, adviser, radiation therapy and infrastructure planning, Ontario Health, and Dr. Matt Follwell, RVH chief of oncology.Photo supplied by Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre


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ROYAL VICTORIA REGIONAL HEALTH CENTRE

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As we speak, Royal Victoria Regional Well being Centre (RVH) formally opened the Simcoe Pod, RVH’s satellite radiation remedy unit, a part of the Hudson Regional Most cancers Program.

The Simcoe Pod will guarantee continuity of look after the area’s most cancers sufferers as RVH begins the prolonged means of changing three of 4 linear accelerators (LINACs).

Situated simply outdoors the Simcoe entrance of the well being centre, the Simcoe Pod constructing was the primary modular radiation remedy unit in Canada, working from 2008 till the most cancers centre opened in 2012.

The revitalized Simcoe Pod permits the Hudson Regional Most cancers Program to proceed assembly the wants of sufferers and creates a possibility so as to add a everlasting, much-needed fifth LINAC.

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