Natural Resources committee  I should have forwarded it to you, Jean-Luc. As part of my program, I operate the cyclotron at McMaster University Medical Centre. They are expensive to operate. A dose of fluorodeoxyglucose, if we were operating at full capacity and therefore using the system to its fullest av

Natural Resources committee  I certainly know that the federal health ministry has been meeting on an ongoing basis with provincial and territorial counterparts, and there has been information-sharing at that level. I believe it has gone through the process in Alberta, and it has been relatively widely disse

Natural Resources committee  Mr. Chair, this is Dr. Gulenchyn.

Natural Resources committee  I'm terribly sorry; it must be a little odd. But I wanted to respond to the question regarding the roll-out of PET in other provinces. Dr. Urbain will not have been aware of the fact that literally as I walked into this teleconference room today, the Ontario government responde

Natural Resources committee  I don't think it's entirely fair. Quite clearly, we are going to continue to use the strategies we're using right now in order to do the best we can for our patients in our current circumstances. How long can we continue to do this? The major thing we've done is in fact divert

Natural Resources committee  To the best of my knowledge, that hasn't occurred. However, every hospital facility in the province I come from, Ontario, has signed an accountability agreement with government and is in a situation in which they must abide by their funding envelope. My financial people have not

Natural Resources committee  I'm answering the second question first. I live and work in Hamilton and have very good relationships with the people at the reactor, but I'm not directly connected to the reactor. My understanding of the proposal that McMaster has put in front of government is that they are in

Natural Resources committee  Thank you. If we are talking specifically about cardiac function tests that are being monitored as a result of a patient, say, receiving chemotherapy, and we want to be certain that the patient's heart isn't being adversely affected, yes, there are alternative tests. Echocardiog

Natural Resources committee  I do not believe at this time we are seeing increased amounts of molybdenum going to the generator manufacturers in North America. The slight increase in supply we have for this week has occurred as a result of some activity leaving, I believe, South Africa and heading to Lantheu

Natural Resources committee  I'm afraid I can't answer “very much”. I don't want to qualify it. It will help. I don't think “very much” may be the correct adjective.

Natural Resources committee  At the moment, we're at about a 70% supply level in Hamilton. The amount of supply probably varies from site to site within the country. I think the question about the monitoring effort is a very good question. I know what the monitoring plan is for Ontario. We are having our fir

Natural Resources committee  No.

Natural Resources committee  Yes, I believe that's true. I think the planning that has occurred over the last 16 to 18 months has allowed us to deal expeditiously with this circumstance, as opposed to trying to write the plan on the back of an envelope in the last three weeks to implement it. I believe the p

Natural Resources committee  The patient's best chance for proper treatment is that cancer be diagnosed early, when its extent is limited, and accurately, so appropriate treatment can be prescribed.

Natural Resources committee  If you're talking about the increase in radiation dose Dr. Urbain spoke of, he was talking about thallium, which is the drug that's used for imaging heart disease, not cancers. If you're talking about the concept in general—should we be advocating for increased radiation dose whe