URF-Videoscope

Changes in cancer treatments, and investments in cancer research, have increased the survival rates by almost 30 percent in adults with cancer in Canada over the last 40 years. Though many lives have been saved because of these advances, cancer is still the 2nd most common cause of death today.

We all know that early detection is the key to survival in all types of cancer and this fact drives homes most when it comes to renal cancer, more commonly known as kidney cancer. Kidney cancer is the 6th most prevalent cancer in Canada. This year 5100 Canadians will be diagnosed with this disease and it’s on the rise. That means that it is likely that 11 people will be diagnosed with this disease in Delta this year. Of those 11, 4 people will succumb to kidney cancer. This terrible survival rate is in part a result of the fact that there s no screening program for kidney cancers.

This year, your generosity is increasing survival rates in Delta by helping us to purchase the most up-to-date and stare-of-the-art equipment for our medical staff that will help diagnose and treat cancer patient here in our community. This fall, your support of the Cancer Care Fund helped purchase a specialized-scope used to diagnose kidney cancer – a type of cancer that today has no preemptive screening process.

Our medical staff at Delta Hospital brought to your attention a special piece of equipment used to “shine a light” on kidney Cancer – an Uretero-Reno (URF) Videoscope and you answered. This September we purchased the scope as well as colonoscopes and resectoscopes – all used to detect various types of cancer. The flexible URF videoscope is used to diagnose kidney cancer by producing an image quality far superior to the more common fiber-optic scopes. The pictures are larger, brighter, and more precise giving the doctors the necessary information to make the best possible diagnosis.

Ten years ago, people who had symptoms of kidney cancer that required surgery were kept overnight, sometimes up to ten days. Recovery from the surgery was long and the incision scaring could be large. Today, with the URF videoscope a similar procedure, for diagnosis purposes, is a minimally invasive procedure - a day surgery with hospital time only a few hours and very little scaring.

Before people at risk for renal or other urological cancers had to travel outside Delta to seek medical attention, now the non-invasive procedure (called an Uretero Reno Scope) can be performed right here in Delta – saving patients and their families the added stress of travel for treatment and recovery.

When cancer is detected and diagnosed early and the appropriate treatment the rate of survival is drastically increased. Your support in purchasing a URF videoscope allows our medical staff the opportunity to catch cancer before it’s too late helping people in our community living with cancer have a longer and more vibrant life.

 

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