Read more about This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.He survived leukemia as a child. He was diagnosed with leukemia when he was 4 1/2.Lee Baumgartner (boy on left) and Joshua Giambattista (boy on right) got a cockpit tour as part of their Air Canada Dreams Take Flight trip to Disney World in May 1994. “I remember being in a hospital a lot.

I remember being in the clinic and I remember getting chemo and everything, but I don’t really remember feeling bad or feeling sick, for the most part.He was cancer-free after 3 1/2 years of chemotherapy — oral, intravenous, intramuscular and through his spine — but cancer still plays a role in his life.“I think because of my experience in it, I knew I wanted to work in a cancer centre type of environment, because It’s “absolutely a dream come true for him and us,” said Cheryl.A boy initially scared of needles, Joshua eventually learned to be still during a spinal tap.“Because they had to do them so often, especially the spinal taps, they wanted to get them to do it without any sedations. Leader-Post photo by Don Healy.He survived leukemia as a child. If you can assist in completing missing information, join us in the forums or email dparker@ahsfhs.org. It currently has a total of 307 beds - 43 for rehabilitation inpatients, 205 beds for specialized long-term care clients, five children's beds and 54 beds for clients placed through Veterans Affairs Canada. Visit RateMDs for information on Dr. Gillian Bailey in Regina. My dad would have been a little bit older than me (now), which is unthinkable. Visit our © 2020 Regina Leader Post, a division of Postmedia Network Inc. All rights reserved. The address is 1505 Barrington Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 3Y6. News. Please try againPostmedia is committed to maintaining a lively but civil forum for discussion and encourage all readers to share their views on our articles. He was born on a farm near Broadview, SK, the youngest of nine, on February 3, 1931. Leader-Post photo by Don Healy.Joshua Giambattista (right) pictured with his sister Melanie. View Gillian Bailey’s profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. The position title is Regional Physician Advisor, Atlantic. Now 31, he's a radiation oncologist at the Allan Blair Cancer Centre.Four-year-old Joshua Giambattista was terrified of needles.Cheryl Giambattista remembers her son hiding underneath a stretcher at the General Hospital, having to be pried out to undergo medical tests.The doctors were 99-per-cent sure he had mono, but they needed to rule out leukemia.After the tests, though, they couldn’t rule it out: He had cancer.“I don’t really have a lot of bad memories from it, to be honest,” said Joshua. Unauthorized distribution, transmission or republication strictly prohibited.This website uses cookies to personalize your content (including ads), and allows us to analyze our traffic. The Centre became part of the Regina Health District in 1994 and a facility of the Regina Qu'Appelle Health Region in 2002. She is an actress, known for Both boys had cancer. After he was accepted to medical school at the University of Saskatchewan — where he also met his wife, Dr. Gillian Bailey — he volunteered at the Saskatoon Cancer Centre. Then, radiation therapists outline the normal organs on each slice of the scan. Gillian Bailey is employed with Indigenous Services Canada, registered with Shared Services Canada. “I think I was on call, so I got the phone call from the lab specialist.”He was hopeful Joshua had mono, less serious than leukemia.When he was nearing the end of high school at Greenall in Balgonie, medicine seemed like a more practical pursuit than trying to make a living in a rock band.His band Chesterfield Rock was finding success, and Cheryl says she and Nick encouraged Joshua to try music for a while.“I just thought if I could give a crack at (medicine); it doesn’t seem like a bad idea,” he said.“Because you can’t really know if you like it. … Even if you shadow a doctor for a day, you don’t really know what’s going on behind the scenes or the paperwork aspect of things.”Joshua studied biology at the University of Regina and volunteered every Wednesday at the Allan Blair Cancer Centre.After he was accepted to medical school at the University of Saskatchewan — where he also met his wife, Dr. Gillian Bailey — he volunteered at the Saskatoon Cancer Centre.“By the time I got into medical school, I knew I wanted to do something in oncology,” said Joshua.While learning chemotherapy extends a doctor’s education by several years, “Radiation oncology is nice because from the first year we’re doing that and it’s very tech heavy too,” said Joshua.During medical school and his five-year residency in Vancouver, he co-developed a couple of apps, prediction tools to help doctors working on specific types of cancer.His company Limbus AI also seeks to help doctors, specifically to cut down the time to devise a patient’s radiation treatment plan.Currently, it’s a cumbersome process the way Joshua explains it: Patients first get a CT scan, which results in 200 to 300 images, or slices. Now Joshua Giambattista is a cancer doctor in ReginaHe survived leukemia as a child. We ask you to keep your comments relevant and respectful. So far, said Joshua, the results are promising.“There’s going to be a demand for it because, most of the time, this is a bottleneck in getting the patients started on treatment,” he said.“It’s going to open the door up and let us do other things, like improve the quality of treatment.”He speaks enthusiastically about his work, discussing the importance of radiation and how it has changed even in the past decade.“(Radiation is) kind of less well known than chemotherapy, but it plays just as big of a role in terms of achieving a cure in a lot of cancers,” said Joshua.“Five, 10 years ago, they were saying that if the medications are getting better and chemotherapy is getting more targeted, maybe radiation, there’s no role for it.“But kind of the opposite is happening, where there’s potentially an expanded role for radiation treatment and it might work alongside some of these newer cancer therapies that can help patients achieve a long remission.“And that’s all very investigational right now.