Cancer care in Alberta is strained, leading to worse patient outcomes: oncologist

Albertans diagnosed with cancer are waiting three to four times longer than recommended standards for cancer specialists, and an emergency room doctor says more patients are finding out they have cancer than ever before. As Carolyn Kury de Castillo reports, the president of the Alberta Medical Association says the Alberta government must improve recruitment of oncologists to the province.

• Alberta cancer patients left waiting for care over lack of oncologists