- The
Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) is a partner in the Abbotsford
Regional Hospital and Cancer Centre (ARHCC). PHSA is the health authority
providing cancer care services through its specialized agency, the BC
Cancer Agency.
- The
cancer centre within the ARHCC will be known as the BC Cancer Agency’s
Abbotsford Centre. It will be the fifth regional cancer centre in the
province and the first to open in the Lower Mainland since 1995.
- The
centre represents an important step forward in the BC Cancer Agency’s
provincewide mission to:
- Reduce
the incidence of cancer;
- Reduce
the mortality rate of people with cancer; and
- Improve
the quality of life of people living with cancer.
- The
new cancer centre is the first in Western Canada to be integrated within a
hospital “from the ground up.” Partnering in care with Fraser Health,
along with the facility’s state-of-the-art design features and enhanced
services, will promote seamless care for patients.
- This
centre will be an integral addition to the BC Cancer Agency’s provincial
cancer control services. It will provide state-of-the-art services and
compassionate care, conduct national and international clinical research
trials, and work closely with interdisciplinary teams across the BC Cancer
Agency’s provincial network.
- The
rapidly growing Fraser Valley urgently needs the quality health-care
services that will be provided in this new state-of-the-art facility.
- The
opening of this centre will offer Fraser Valley patients the opportunity
to receive a spectrum of world-class cancer care services closer to home.
It expands the BC Cancer Agency’s ability to pursue innovation and
research, and to improve patient outcomes.
- Each
year, about 2,800 Fraser Valley residents are newly diagnosed with cancer.
The BC Cancer Agency’s Abbotsford Centre can accommodate up to about
60,000 patient visits annually at full capacity.
- The BC
Cancer Agency’s Abbotsford Centre will offer a full range of cancer
control services, including:
- New
patient multi-disciplinary consultation and care planning;
- 12
chemotherapy chairs;
- Four
linear accelerators for the delivery of radiation therapy and enhanced
brachytherapy services;
- Supportive
care, nutritional consultation and rehabilitation;
- Pain/symptom
management and palliative care;
- Hereditary
cancer program;
- Breast
health services in collaboration with Fraser Health;
- Patient
and community education in cancer prevention;
- Professional
education/liaison for community-based cancer control programs; and
- A
research-focused mandate that provides patients with access to national
and international clinical trials.
·
The BC Cancer Agency expects to employ about 125 staff
at the Abbotsford Centre and is recruiting for a range of medical and radiation
oncology roles through to nursing, nutrition, clinical counselling, pharmacy,
clinical physics, and clerical and administrative functions.
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For further updates about the BC Cancer Agency’s
Abbotsford Centre, visit: www.bccancer.bc.ca/RS/AbbotsfordCentre/.
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