BC Halts US Radiation Therapy Program for Cancer Patients

BC Halts US Radiation Therapy Program for Cancer Patients
B.C. Health Minister Josie Osborne during a news conference in Burnaby, B.C., on June 10, 2024. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck
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The B.C. government has announced it will discontinue a program that permitted patients to receive radiation therapy in the United States.
The program was launched in May 2023 to give eligible patients the option to receive “timely access to life-saving” radiation therapy at two clinics located in Bellingham, Washington. Now that provincial wait times have improved, the program is set to end, the province said in an April 7 press release.