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Minister says no chemo concerns here

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While health officials in Ontario investigate why more than a thousand cancer patients were given diluted drugs during chemotherapy, BC's Health Minister is offfering assurances that's not an issue in this province.


Margaret MacDiarmid, who's also a cancer survivor, says there's no evidence of drugs being watered-down here.

"The attention to safety that is carried out....I mean, I am a person who's actually had chemotherapy and I'm really aware of how much care and really painstaking care is taken with respect to chemotherapy.  Fortunately, in BC, because we have the BC Cancer Agency that's in charge of all of that sort of thing for the whole province and I've not heard of any similiar concerns in BC."
 

An independent investigator has been appointed to ensure Ontario's cancer drug supply is safe.


Similar problems have also been recorded at a hospital in New Brunswick.


   


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