When it comes to training gynecologic oncologists, quite frankly, we are an incredibly tight community. There are not many of us in Canada. I don't think people quite understand. We're talking about 250 gynecologic oncologists serving the entire population of Canada. We're training probably about anywhere from five to 10 per year. I know all of them personally. They trained me, and I've gone on to train the next generations of groups.
The field is becoming more and more complex. This is where we need the help, which traditionally hasn't happened before, to bring more medical oncologists, nursing staff and family physicians into our field of practice. We have some very dedicated medical oncologists who have been with us for the last 40 years. We're trying to get the next generation of medical oncologists to become interested in gyn-onc, which has sometimes been deemed not quite as exciting, because maybe they're not doing the most exciting treatments that they might see while they're treating their lung and colon cancers, melanomas and things like that. We are now breaking into that, and we really need our colleagues' assistance to come and join us here.
When it comes to training, the gyn-onc group people are very tight within themselves, but we need to start bringing in medical oncologists, family physicians and nurses to join our team.