by
Sean Ruck, Contributing Editor | November 20, 2014
From the November 2014 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
HCBN: Is there any cutting-edge technology you’d like to discuss and highlight?
MC: In terms of technology specifically, the surgical floor is equipped with 14 operating room suites that will incorporate technologies such as robotics and intra-operative MRI. Each treatment vault is equipped with new Varian True Beam linear accelerators. The radiology facilities will bring the newest technologies available for identifying and imaging tumors. This is coupled with the six interventional radiology suites also incorporating the newest instrumentation and capabilities. Each inpatient floor also has research laboratories that will support our molecular analyses capabilities.
HCBN: Are there any specific nearterm or long-term goals for the new facility that you care to discuss?
MC: First and foremost, we would like to work ourselves out of a job – we want a cancer-free world. And I honestly believe it’s not that far off. We’ve already seen amazing discoveries and treatments even within that past five years…some of which started at OSU. Patients who previously would have been handed a death sentence are now beating their disease, and we need to keep moving in that direction. We need to continue pushing forward with cancer research, continue recruiting the best and brightest cancer experts from around the world — just keep at the fight. Because we really can win this, I truly believe it. There is no such thing as routine cancer, so there can be no such thing as routine treatment. One by one, patient by patient, we are getting there.
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