Pounds 4m Cancer Centre Open
Posted on: Wednesday, 26 October 2005, 21:00 CDT
PATIENTS from across the Midlands are set to be treated in a new pounds 4.5 million cancer treatment centre from today.
Hospital bosses have pledged that the new unit at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, in Edgbaston, will speed up patient services and give them access to the latest equipment to kill fatal cancer cells.
Specialist equipment includes two extra radiotherapy machines and a PET and CT scanner to detect cancer tumours throughout the body. Chris Boivin, the hospital's head of nuclear medicine, said: "This development is at the cutting edge of technology
Source: Evening Mail; Birmingham (UK)
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