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PM visits our £17m new cancer centre
Reporter: Janice Barker
Date online: 18 March 2010
GORDON Brown visited Oldham’s pioneering Christie Cancer Centre today.
The Prime Minister is the first VIP to tour the £17 million radiotherapy centre, two days after it opened at the Royal Oldham Hospital.
Smiling broadly, Mr Brown met staff and patients at the centre which was backed by £100,000 raised in record time by Chronicle readers.
The Prime Minister saw the two treatment rooms where the latest £1.3 million linear accelerators deliver the cancer-beating radiotherapy treatment.
The centre has started treating breast and prostate cancers and will shortly expand to treat other types.
It is the first in a network of centre to treat cancer patients closer to their homes, and will treat 70 patients each day.
First patient was Jack Horrocks (73) from Rochdale, who was diagnosed with prostate cancer in October and began four weeks of treatment on Tuesday.
A second Christie radiotherapy centre is also being built at Salford Royal Hospital and will open next year.
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If he, or some other politician, hadn't visited there'd still be complaints. It shows, whatever your political views, the importance of the facility.
We should be pleased and grateful to have such an outstanding wonderful unit within our hospital
Well done to all concerned - I hope it is a great success.
what a farce!! wasnt it brown who wasnt going to help christies when they lost money in the icelandic back crash?
then he turns up to get more publicity for something he hasnt even helped with!
i would have refused him the oppotunity to do so!
The new Cancer Centre is a marvellous facility for the town,and I would like to mention the new Integrated health centre in the town,I have recently recieved treatment there and the service I recieved was first class and the staff couldnt have been more helpful.Thanks to everyone from a grateful patient.
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You can tell its near election time, Mr Bean touting for votes, surprised phil wasn’t there.
By Keith @ 18/03/2010 12:46:20