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“We’re both Canadians and had a passion for trying to make something happen.”
Edmonton Global’s reps introduced Baltzer to the Ben Stelter Foundation, and the Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation also got involved.
“We didn’t want to just bring this therapy to Canada, we want to lead,” says Baltzer.
Brain-cancer patients that are treated with traditional radiation therapy can suffer complications such as decreased
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“This will allow us to spare that — and make sure their
function and quality of life going forward is optimal,” says Baltzer. “Right now, it’s devastating that we see people suffer who don’t need to suffer, or who could be significantly helped. I think we’re in a Renaissance of cancer care. It used to be that a cancer diagnosis was one of the most gut-wrenching things a patient could be given. Today, it’s not that — there are so many effective therapies, and we can make it something you can treat and live with, but don’t succumb to. And proton is a big part of that.”
“We didn’t want
to just bring this therapy to Canada, we want to lead.”
— Gordon Baltzer
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