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09/04/2004
US medical delegation arrives in province
A senior delegation, including the Chief Executive, Chairman and Chief Medical Officer from the American Cancer Society (ACS), has visited Northern Ireland's Regional Cancer Centre based at Belfast City Hospital as it reached the final phase of construction.
The delegation were in the province to see at first hand the latest developments in cancer care throughout the province. They will also examine ways in which the ACS can partner and accelerate the further development of these local programmes.
The £60 million state-of-the-art Centre at BCH, which broke ground in July 2002 and is scheduled to open its doors to patients in early 2006, will concentrate expertise and research in cancer treatments.
Speaking at the event, Professor Patrick Johnston, director of the Centre for Cancer Research, said: "This new centre is an indicator of how far we have come in developing a Cancer Centre for Northern Ireland, it is worthy of our patients, who will benefit from it, and the hundreds of dedicated and motivated staff who will deliver its full potential. Properly supported, this Centre is capable of providing services of world-class standard.
"Over 3,500 people die from cancer each year in Northern Ireland. Many lives could be saved by improvements in diagnosis and treatment."
The Belfast-based facility, already positioned as one of Europe's leading Cancer Centres, is linked with the world's leading National Cancer Institute in the United States through the All-Ireland Cancer Consortium.
Launched in 1999, the NCI-All Ireland Cancer Consortium established a new co-operative approach to cancer research, control and prevention among the governments of Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in the United States.
Alongside the development of the clinical centre will be the development of a new £20m Cancer Research Centre by Queen's University Belfast that will lead to the development of the first Comprehensive Cancer Centre in the whole of Ireland.
(MB)
The delegation were in the province to see at first hand the latest developments in cancer care throughout the province. They will also examine ways in which the ACS can partner and accelerate the further development of these local programmes.
The £60 million state-of-the-art Centre at BCH, which broke ground in July 2002 and is scheduled to open its doors to patients in early 2006, will concentrate expertise and research in cancer treatments.
Speaking at the event, Professor Patrick Johnston, director of the Centre for Cancer Research, said: "This new centre is an indicator of how far we have come in developing a Cancer Centre for Northern Ireland, it is worthy of our patients, who will benefit from it, and the hundreds of dedicated and motivated staff who will deliver its full potential. Properly supported, this Centre is capable of providing services of world-class standard.
"Over 3,500 people die from cancer each year in Northern Ireland. Many lives could be saved by improvements in diagnosis and treatment."
The Belfast-based facility, already positioned as one of Europe's leading Cancer Centres, is linked with the world's leading National Cancer Institute in the United States through the All-Ireland Cancer Consortium.
Launched in 1999, the NCI-All Ireland Cancer Consortium established a new co-operative approach to cancer research, control and prevention among the governments of Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in the United States.
Alongside the development of the clinical centre will be the development of a new £20m Cancer Research Centre by Queen's University Belfast that will lead to the development of the first Comprehensive Cancer Centre in the whole of Ireland.
(MB)
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