Health minister provides cancer care update in Kelowna but motivation questioned [Video]

B.C. health minister Adrian Dix was in Kelowna Thursday to provide an update on the province’s 10 year cancer action plan.

“The demand for cancer care is of course at all time high and is expected to increase as our population grows,” Dix said outside of the cancer clinic. “This year alone 34,000 people will be diagnosed with cancer in B.C. and that number in 10 years will be 10,000 more people.”

Last year, the province announced a 10-year plan to improve cancer care services.

Since then, Dix said progress has been made.

“We are building four new cancer centres, B.C. cancer centres to bring cancer care closer to home in our province,” the health minister said.

Those new centres will be located in Kamloops, Nanaimo, Surrey and Burnaby.

Reading from 27 pages of notes, Dix provided a lot of detailed information on improvements being made to cancer care in B.C.

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