At-home cancer treatments mean fewer trips to hospital for Alberta patients

Jennifer Lee · CBC News ·

A unique Alberta study is offering the promise of a bit more independence for some cancer patients and potential relief for a strained health-care system.

Two dozen volunteers with myeloma, a type of blood cancer, are trained by oncology nurses to give themselves a chemotherapy treatment, called bortezomib, at home.

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