Health committee  I would be very interested in that.

Health committee  I would like to endorse everything Gail has said and everything Durhane has said, because in regard to networks of expertise across the country, what we lack is physicians who are aware of what is available in Canada or anywhere in the world. If somebody goes to a GP and.... For

Health committee  Yes, sorry. When you talk about a framework, are you talking about a national...? Could you explain again, please?

Health committee  Yes. Well, Don Bell did speak at our international conference in Vancouver, where we had 35 physicians and about 230 attendees in Vancouver on May 14 and May 15. On May 14 he actually spoke for about 20 minutes, and he talked about his grandson and he talked about the process.

Health committee  The key thoughts about what could be in the letter to the minister are this. Could we please relax the regulatory framework so that we can adopt some of those proven techniques, particularly the ones in Europe, maybe even in India? But we're close to Europe, so let's focus on Eur

Health committee  Speaking as a patient, I want you to know that patients in Canada and around the world are connected very much by the Internet, and through the Internet we read about clinical trials in other countries. We read about approved procedures in other countries. So we read about how su

Health committee  Some people will be. They get accepted to go out of the country. They don't get accepted for Canada, and that means they can't afford to go. So they can't take advantage of it because it's not regulated here.

Health committee  No, not in Canada.

Health committee  Thank you for having me. I was going to introduce the idea of our cancer, first of all. We are a cancer. We're sometimes not regarded as a cancer, but we're highly malignant, and it grows rapidly. It comes from the neuroendocrine cells in the body, and we need a variety of trea

Health committee  They do apply through the special access program, though some people completely circumvent it. People with money just go out of the country. There's a high incidence of people with money going out of the country. They go through the special access program, but then I'm not sure h

Health committee  It can be lengthy. It could be months, and when somebody's quite sick, that's a long time.

Health committee  As important as that is, they can't afford to pay the airfare, so the special--

Health committee  My name is Maureen Coleman. I'm president of the Carcinoid NeuroEndocrine Tumour Society Canada. We're all over Canada. Our mandate is research, education, awareness, and support for our relatively rare cancer. We have a shortage of certain treatments, including isotopes. This wi