Baptists want to build cancer center to rival University of Texas cancer center.

By JASON ROBERSON / The Dallas Morning News
jroberson@dallasnews.com

Baylor Health Care System on Friday expects to announce plans for a $350 million, 450,000-square-foot cancer center, featuring a 120-bed cancer hospital and the largest outpatient cancer center in Texas.

The outpatient center will border Hall and Worth streets near Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas at 3500 Gaston Ave. It is scheduled to open in 2011, according to senior Baylor executives.

Construction of the cancer hospital will begin in 2010, with completion scheduled for 2013, the executives said.

"When completed in 2013, it will be our goal to be a nationally and internationally renowned cancer care destination," said Joel T. Allison, president of Baylor Health Care System.

The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston is currently the state's only dedicated cancer hospital. That facility is typically ranked among the nation's top cancer resources, along with the likes of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

Donna Bowers, vice president of oncology services at Baylor Health Care System, estimates it will take Dallas' cancer center 10 years before it reaches that level of worldwide renown.



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...shallow and ignorant.

before any one takes out the matches about being insensitve please understand that cancer took
my wife a number of years ago and i hate it more that many of you folks will ever (hopefully)
understand.

that being said--with the clown in the white house pushing policy where religous medical facilities can set treatment policy by way of doctrine......
the pulpit has no place in the operating room, cept maybe to say a prayer

so I don't think it will be intellectually backward. M.D. Anderson is the place where doctors go to be treated when they get cancer, so if they are building something to rival that it can only be good. Seems like it would be good to have it somewhere else in the country though.

and this is a natural progression of growth of an already existing cancer program.