Tuesday, June 9, 2009

This Is Not Good Enough

Newfoundland & Labrador owns one of only five express tissue processor machines in Canada. From The Star:

"One of the most advanced biopsy testing systems in the world, allowing patients to have a tissue biopsy in the morning, get their pathology results in the afternoon and, if they have cancer, to immediately start a treatment plan with their surgeon. The machine, which costs about $300,000 and can process up to 120 biopsy samples per hour, analyzes breast tissue for cancer and provides doctors with ... "information on the architecture of the tumour."

The machine has sat unused in a basement in St. John's for two years.