Health Care

Cancer Center Plans Expansion

SITE PLANS: A new building, shown here in an artist’s rendition, would double the Wilmot Cancer Center’s research space and allow it to consolidate its programs in one site at the Medical Center.

Patients in upstate New York who need treatment for cancer may soon have one of the nation’s leading resources available at the University, thanks to a newly launched effort to greatly expand the Wilmot Cancer Center’s research and clinical care programs.

In May, the center announced a $42.5 million campaign to build a 163,000-square-foot, four-story building and to recruit 25 additional clinicians and scientists. The new building at the corner of Crittenden Boulevard and East Drive would double the center’s research space and allow the center to consolidate its programs in one site.

The campaign is a part of a larger strategic plan that includes a goal of having the center named a National Cancer Institute, a recognition given to the nation’s top comprehensive cancer centers.

The Wilmot Cancer Center currently has one of the largest clinical programs for lymphoma and leukemia in the Northeast and leads the nation in a form of radiosurgery that destroys tumors that were once considered untreatable.