Depending on where you live, the type of cancer and the treatment you have, you may be treated at the Nova Scotia Cancer Centre in Halifax, at the VG site of the QEII Hospital or the Cape Breton Cancer Centre is located in Sydney at the Cape Breton Regional Hospital.

Satellite oncology clinics have been set up at other hospitals throughout Nova Scotia so patients can have their cancer care closer to home:

• The Nova Scotia Cancer Centre supports satellite clinics at the Valley Regional Hospital in Kentville, the Yarmouth Regional Hospital in Yarmouth and the Aberdeen Hospital in New Glasgow.
• The Cape Breton Cancer Centre supports satellite clinics at St. Martha's Regional Hospital in Antigonish and the Inverness Consolidated Memorial Hospital in Inverness.

Some patients, regardless of where they live, may still require referral to Halifax based on their diagnosis. They may have some or all of their care delivered at this centre. Examples include patients who have blood, head and neck, brain or gynaecological cancers.

In addition to the services offered at the Cancer Centres, and the satellite oncology clinics, chemotherapy is available at most hospitals. Every effort will be made to arrange for you to have your chemotherapy as close to your home, as safely as possible.

The decision about where a patient receives care is based on the individual patient’s needs. The decision is based on such things as: the kind and extent of cancer a patient has and the suggested treatment.

If you are being treated at the Nova Scotia Cancer Centre in Halifax or one of their satellite clinics:
• click here for information about the centre

If you are being treated at the Cape Breton Cancer Centre in Sydney or one of their satellite clinics:
• click here for information about the centre