7 | durhamregion.com This Week | Thursday, April 14, 2022 region.comFamily Owned And Operated Since 1953Family Owned And Operated Since 1953 733 KINGSTON RD. E. AJAX MON-WED/SAT: 9AM-6pM, THURS/FRI: 9AM-7pM SUN AND HOlIDAyS: 10AM-5pM @macmillanorchards1953 3 VARIETIES *CHICKEN *VEGETABLE *MEAT (Pork & Beef) 1.25kg bags 22 pieces HIGHEST QUALITY!!! CRISPY EGG ROLLS $699ONLY Compare At $12.99while quantities last 905.430.1141 Wishing you a Blessed Good Friday and a Happy Easter. 101-114 DUNDAS STREET EAST, WHITBY LORNE.COECO@PC.OLA.ORG LORNECOEMPP.CA "We offer the same level of expertise that you will see at a downtown hospital out here at Lakeridge. That same level of care at home for our patients. In pathology, we have one of the largest pathology labs in the province, processing 38,000 cases a year." At the cancer centre, upwards of 200 patients a day are seen for blood work so it can be monitored for chemotherapy, he added. The lab does the actual diagnosing of what type of cancer a patient may have. Reports, sometimes many pages long, detail a patient's situation and will play a key role in helping the patient receive the proper treatment, Ismiil said. "We are very focused on accuracy, the best results, the most accurate results, because we really want our patients to get the proper and the best treatment that they deserve and that they are entitled to," she said. "The level of service that we do provide is top-notch. Our pathologists will stage cancer, so that is how you understand stage one to stage four. They do that, but we also don't just do the diagnose. We also help determine the treatment, personalized medicine, where the type of cancer treatment or chemotherapy will be dependent on that diagnosis as well," Johnson noted. Johnson noted the cancer centre represents more than 20 per cent of testing in the lab. "That is how significant the testing is. And, that is just the outpatient cancer, not counting the in-patient cancer as well." The cancer centre is in the middle of a $20-million fundraising campaign, Our Cancer Campaign. Joel Neville, the business manager for Carpenter's Local 397, said the union has been supporting our Foundation since 1991. They recently donated $100,000 and directed the money go to the laboratory and pathology area. "That was the best way of directing the money, we felt," Neville said. "Most of our members are from the Durham Region. A lot were born in the hospital. A lot had passed away at the hospital. It's the most natural place for us to put any funds that supports the membership as a whole," Neville said. Johnson said the campaign will help the lab update its technology and allow them to automate some practices that are now done manually. "We have a lot of automation through the lab, but it's refreshing it. The digital pathology, we are going to undergo an entire refresh to have the latest instrumentation as well," he said. To learn more about the fundraising campaign, visit ourcancer.ca. STORY BEHIND THE STORY: The R.S. McLaughlin Durham Regional Cancer Centre is trying to raise $20 million to continue to offer state-of-the-art treatment to cancer patients from Durham and beyond. We're highlighting some of the areas of the campaign to put a human face on the need for treatment here in Durham. NEWS 'WE ARE VERY FOCUSED ON ACCURACY, THE BEST RESULTS, THE MOST ACCURATE RESULTS' Continued from front SCAN THE CODE to read more stories online. The Immunohistochemistry and special stains room at the R.S. McLaughlin Durham Regional Cancer Centre at Lakeridge Health. Susie Kockerscheidt/Metroland