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POG does not replace cancer treatments
To the editor: Regarding a recent article in Kelowna Capital News (Personalized Treatments for Okanagan Cancer Patients, Sept. 30), it has a substantial error. The POG (Personalized Oncogenomics Program) is not in any way a replacement for chemotherapy or radiation, as your [contributed] article states. The genomic analysis and report generated by POG is meant to provide more information to cancer doctors (oncologists)
and specifically we look for what genomic abnormalities might be responsible for driving the growth or behaviour of a patient’s specific cancer. This additional information may influence the treatments that a patient receives, including chemotherapy. The overarching goal of the program is to use this genomic information to direct the patient toward separate systemic therapy (chemotherapy) clinical trials whenever possible, these are usually targeted chemotherapy drugs.
As POG is a highly experimental new technology, the patients who are enrolled have cancers that have been deemed incurable by standard treatment protocols. If a patient would like to know if they are eligible for POG, they should speak to their oncologist as this protocol is open to patients across B.C. Kevin Sauvé, communications officer, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver
Why is the price of Kelowna gas among the highest in the country?
Open letter to Ron Cannan [MP Kelowna-Lake Country] and Steve Thomson [MLA Kelowna-Mission]: Kelowna gas, $1.21.9/litre as of September 30, 2015. A very simple question is being asked throughout the Okanagan in which you both supposedly serve. Why is the price of gas higher here than any other city in the country? Why is the government allowing such blatant price fixing in the Okanagan?
Why are prices lower in Vancouver ($1.14) where there is an 11 per cent translink tax included? Why are prices lower [as of Sept. 29] in Kamloops ($1.09) Winnipeg ($0.92) Calgary ($0.97) Regina ($0.96) London ($0.89) Toronto ($0.93) St. Johns ($0.95)? These are questions that you, the
government, have the power to do something about under the Competition Act and the Criminal Code. I realize, Mr. Cannan, you will have to get permission from [Prime Minister Stephen] Harper before you can speak, and, Mr. Thompson, I would imagine you will have to do the same from [B.C. Premier Christy] Clark. People are tired of getting screwed. People want answers now. Ian MacLean, Kelowna
Even Exxon wants to cut greenhouse gases
To the editor: Tom Harris [Little Evidence Warming Climate Leads to Forest Fires, Sept. 25 Kelowna Capital News] has added an unusual perspective on Angela Nagy’s assertion that there are many business opportunities available to innovators and entrepreneurs who have the ability to introduce legitimate green technologies and improvements to our economy, and, perhaps more importantly, to our environment. Mr. Harris, who is affiliated with the much derided Heartland Institute, (he is listed as one of their “experts”) has seemingly cherrypicked some information from the UN IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] that questions whether or not the recent extreme weather phenomena are caused by climate change. Ostensibly, since there is a lack of ironclad proof of the connection, we are to quickly conclude that the UN IPCC has joined the Heartland Institute in its denial of human induced climate change and that we should just shut down all further business initiatives to mitigate climate change and drill baby, drill or, in B.C., frack baby, frack. He goes on to make the point that efforts to reduce our carbon footprint is a waste of our money. Most unusual, indeed. Even a cursory Google search of the IPCC will reveal
that they can get downright scary when they talk about the dire consequences of unabated anthropogenic climate change. He also makes the point that we should be spending more money on adapting to the effects of climate change which may actually be a reasonable suggestion. The peculiar thing about this is that this makes more sense to those of us that suspect that the severe weather necessitates this kind of action. Harris argues that the severe weather consequences are not related to climate change but then tells us we should be spending gobs of our money bracing ourselves for the storm. Most unusual. Harris’ raison d’etre seems to be ‘unusual.’ It gets him a lot of attention. I read his kind of slop like I’m looking at some kind of gory roadside carnage. Unusual to us—but all very usual coming from the same institute that was trying to tell us as late as the 1990s that cigarette smoke was not so terribly bad for our health. Before The Heartland Institute stopped disclosing their source of funds, they listed the who’s who of the oil industry and conservative sources including the Koch family of course. It’s also a little unusual to see that even ExxonMobile yanked their funding from these people because the oil company had at least some remaining vestiges of
On board for ‘senior style’ picketing to get stair rails
To the editor: Re: Prospera Place Needs Hand Rails on Stairs, Sept. 25 Kelowna Capital News. Commendations to Henry Johnson for pointing out the “unsafe lack of railings” at Prospera Place. My heart goes out to this 86-year-old as I, at the tender age of 70, also suffer that feeling when attending events at Prospera Place. I am available to picket, pass leaflets, do
whatever to bring about a resolve to this matter. ‘Senior style’ picketing, getting in the city fathers’ faces, seems the only way something will be done. Let’s get busy folks. I’m with Henry Johnson. It’s high time this safety concern be addressed. Contact me with your support at 778-2147374. Dale Ashton, Kelowna
integrity that led them to stop funding groups that were skeptical of climate change. Maybe Mr. Harris would benefit from briefly reviewing what Exxon says about pursuing their objectives in reducing greenhouse gases right on their own website (http://corporate.exxonmobil.com/en/currentissues/climate-policy/climate-policy-principles/ overview): • promoting energy efficiency • deploying existing technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions costeffectively • supporting research and development of new low-emissions technologies and • supporting climate research to help inform the ongoing policy response. Although Mr. Harris scorns Ms. Nagy for not being “on the right side of this debate,” Exxon certainly doesn’t agree with him and neither do I. Alan Monk, Kelowna
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