Banner MD Anderson to Expand

Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center on the Banner Gateway campus broke ground Jan. 22 on an expansion of its outpatient cancer facility, offering a new service and additional equipment and treatment areas to meet the needs of its growing patient population.

 

Jamie Villa, Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center patient, and Edgardo Rivera, M.D., medical director, at the groundbreaking ceremony 

 

The $62.6 million, 111,000-square-foot expansion will take place to the south of the existing 130,000-square-foot building and will add:

 

– Three linear accelerators, for a future total of six, used for external beam and internal radiation treatments

– 30 additional clinic exam rooms

– 13 additional infusion bays

– Expansion of Laboratory Intake Center and welcome center

– The Cox Center for Integrative Oncology and Cancer Prevention

– Dedicated space for the Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy program

– Additional shell space for future expansion needs

 

The newly added space will open in spring 2014. Project architects are HKS, Inc. and the general contractor is DPR Construction.

 

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