The cancer mortality rate is higher in Europe and Canada.

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Originally Posted by GregW

Canada has an older population.

really? how old are they? like 90 or 112 years old?

[momonkey]

Originally Posted by helenejen

The article you linked to certainly doesn't support such a conclusion, crabby:

"Further research is planned on how the stage of the cancer at the time of diagnosis may affect survival rates."

When did I say the article I linked to did?

New Brunswick announces that they will send cancer patients south to the United States for radiation therapy. New Brunswick, a small maritime province, is the seventh to publicly announce its plans to send patients south. In the best health care system in the world, the vast majority of provinces now rely on American health care to provide radiation therapy. Provinces do this because the clinically recommended waiting time for treatment is often badly exceeded. Ordinarily, oncologists suggest that there should be a two-week gap between the initial consult by the family doctor and the referral to the oncologist, and then two weeks more from the oncologist to the commencement of radiation therapy. In most Canadian provinces, we exceed that by one to two months, sometimes three.

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Originally Posted by momonkey

When did I say the article I linked to did?
New Brunswick announces that they will send cancer patients south to the United States for radiation therapy. New Brunswick, a small maritime province, is the seventh to publicly announce its plans to send patients south. In the best health care system in the world, the vast majority of provinces now rely on American health care to provide radiation therapy.

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I already posted an article on this - actually from a newsreporter who had been to Canada to talk about referrals to U.S. from Canadian hospitals.

Its nothing the wingnuts make it sound. In Canadian patients from remote regions where they only have smaller clinics are sent to the closest major hospital for specific care - which in several regions happens to be in the U.S.
Has nothing to do with Canada being unable to provide the care or not having time for these patients. The patients that require care that are not available in tiny regions, naturally need to see a major hospital. In fact the government pays for patients to be brought to the U.S. to closest major hospital with the closest access to their town.

They're just being EFFICIENT. Its got nothing to do with failure to provide care.