BUILDING UPDATES
New Cancer Hospital
Construction began in late September 2005 on the new North Carolina Cancer Hospital in the UNC Hospitals Complex. Tentatively scheduled to open in late 2009, the 320,000-square-foot hospital will devote seven floors to cancer services and will provide complete cancer care and research facilities in one building. “Everything a cancer patient needs, with the exception of an operating room, will be under one roof,” said Richard Goldberg, associate director for clinical research at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, which will be housed in the new hospital.
The new facility will offer a variety of patient applications, including a developmental therapies unit, which will allow doctors to treat people with the newest drugs just coming into the clinical arena. It will also offer conferencing facilities to allow UNC’s doctors to communicate their clinical and research findings across the state, nation and world in a minute’s time.
To learn more about the N.C. Cancer Hospital, visit www.unchealthcare.org.