While patients with all types of cancer will be treated at the new 500,000-square-foot Moffitt McKinley Hospital, “solid tumors requiring surgery” will be prioritized in the facility’s 19 operating rooms.
Additionally, surgeons will have the ability to perform MRI-informed procedures in real time, Patrick Hwu, MD, president and CEO of Moffitt, said in the release.
“If a brain surgeon wants to know if he got all the tumor, we don’t have to close the patient, send them to a scanner,” Dr. Hwu said. “Everyone clears the room and an MRI comes in.”
If the scans show additional surgery is required, it’s done on the spot, he said.
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