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With your help, urological diseases can be detected early, and in many cases, cured, utilizing advanced equipment that will also make treatment less invasive.
Through integrating research, education and treatment of prostate cancer and other urological diseases while building the skills of physicians and specialists, the Urology Centre of Health will:
- Provide state-of-the-art treatment and an environment to conduct research and develop treatment alternatives;
- Provide a state-of-the-art resource centre that will encourage understanding and knowledge of the impacts of urological diseases;
- Collect and disseminate educational materials and information on issues from coping with urological diseases to preventing them; and
- Increase the capacity of St. Paul's Hospital to provide support in other clinical areas of the hospital such as medicine and surgery.
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The Embracing the Future campaign will also enable St. Paul's to invest in state of the art equipment such as a Nuclear Medicine gamma camera.
Nuclear Medicine uses very small amounts of safe, painless and cost-effective radioactive materials (radiopharmaceuticals) to diagnose and treat disease. Nuclear medicine imaging procedures often identify abnormalities very early in the progress of a disease, long before many medical problems are apparent.
The increased demand for MRI services in Saskatchewan has become a serious concern. Wait times are already too long and new MRI techniques have increased the number of studies that are being requested in the MRI area. Thus, MRI requests are expected to increase 12% to 15% annually.
A third MRI at St. Paul's would enable specialists from across the province to refer patients to St. Paul's, and would help reduce inter-facility patient transfers.
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