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such a reporting tool was called for by former b.c. cancer chief medical officer dr. malcolm moore during his tenure from 2014 to 2019. during that time, he warned the provincial health services authority that it needed to do more, including hiring more cancer care specialists, to meet the projected rise in cancer patients over the next decade.
for the last month, postmedia has been telling the stories of british columbians like dan quayle , a 52-year-old victoria man with an aggressive form of esophageal cancer who opted for a medically assisted death as his wait dragged on for chemotherapy, and a 43-year-old parksville woman named loni atwood who said b.c. cancer elected to monitor her adrenal cancer instead of start preventative chemotherapy which she believes allowed tumours to spread to her lungs.
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cancer patients have also gone public about their decision to pay privately for treatment in bellingham because they had lost faith in the b.c. system. they encountered health care professionals in the u.s. — some originally from b.c. — who were not as overworked and burned out as those in this province.
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