Comprehensive Cancer Centers has opened its new flagship location in Las Vegas.
To mark the grand opening, local healthcare officials and physicians rant an end-of-treatment bell for the first time at the 15,000 square foot treatment facility.
Located in the downtown Medical District, it joins the city’s 12 existing Comprehensive Cancer Centers locations.
Local educational institutions, like UNLV’s Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine, will offer residencies at Comprehensive for graduating physicians.
And the new center is partnering with the Sarah Cannon Research Institute.
Comprehensive medical oncologist Stephani Christensen says that partnership will soon allow patients to join clinical trials, and try a greater variety of therapies.
“I'm trying to get a breast cancer trial open," said Christensen. "It was the first Sarah Cannon trial. We've already signed the paperwork, and so hopefully we can have people on that very shortly.”
Staff have already begun treating patients.
According to the CDC, cancer is the second leading cause of death in Nevada, behind heart disease.
