00:00Jamie Kernighan was diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer 15 years ago when her youngest child was just six months old.
00:10With the help of her medical team she's now stable but needs regular positron emission tomography or PET scans to monitor the disease.
00:18I'm fully aware of the stress and anxiety that goes into scans and waiting for results.
00:25Jamie is one of 7,000 patients who use the advanced technology each year
00:30and two new PET scanners will be up and running at Queen Elizabeth and Flinders Hospitals from early next year,
00:36previously only accessible at the Royal Adelaide Hospital.
00:39The scanners are used to find tumours and cancers and also help diagnose heart disease and brain disorders.
00:45These new PET machines are going to mean shorter wait times, it's going to be quicker results
00:51and for many patients it'll mean that they can have these scans closer to home.
00:55It's part of a $77 million state and federal government agreement to build a statewide cancer network over the next four years
01:03and coincides with the new South Australian Cancer Plan, the first update since 2015.
01:09Obviously a lot's changed in that time and this sets the pathway forward for how we can better prevent cancer,
01:15detect cancer, treat cancer, look after patients, undertake world leading research.
01:21The opposition backs the move but a sore point remains.
01:24I welcome any new funding into the healthcare system, particularly with cancer treatment
01:29but sadly the healthcare plan with cancer treatment is still not going to fix ramping.
01:35And as cancer rates rise with an ageing population...
01:39Any investment into cancer for a patient is huge.
01:46It's great.
01:48It's a huge part that I've just been improving
01:52It's a big deal to know about problems and with cancer-based.
01:55It doesn't work.
01:57It's a big deal.
02:02It's a big deal.
02:04It's a big deal.
02:05You grow up.
02:07You don't have to be a humanGM.
02:09That's a big deal.
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