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UT Southwestern Medical Center Expanding with Two-Story Radiation Oncology Campus

Nov 26, 2024 | Public | 0 comments

Construction is expected to begin in early summer 2025, with the facility opening in 2028.

 

To meet the growing demands for cancer treatment in Tarrant County and surrounding areas, UT Southwestern Medical Center is expanding its cancer services in the Fort Worth Medical District with construction of a new two-story Radiation Oncology campus that will house the city’s first MRI-guided precision radiation treatment.

At its recent meeting in Austin, the UT System Board of Regents approved proceeding with finalizing plans for the $177 million facility, which is projected to open in 2028. Construction should begin in early summer 2025.

The new Radiation Oncology campus will bring:

  • Four new linear accelerators (LINACs) to deliver precise radiation treatments to patients, with space built out to add two more as needs develop. One of the four LINACs will be equipped with MRI-guided technology – the first of its kind in Fort Worth – to facilitate treatments with unprecedented accuracy.
  • Positron emission tomography (PET) equipment, critical for accurately diagnosing and evaluating tumor growth. This will be only the second of its kind in Fort Worth, providing much-needed resources for optimizing treatments for patients in the community.
  • A fully equipped brachytherapy suite for facilitating prostate and gynecologic high-dose radiation (HDR) treatments, which deliver radiation more efficiently.

UT Southwestern’s Radiation Oncology campus in Fort Worth will bring advanced cancer therapies including the city’s first MRI-guided precision radiation treatment.

Beyond cancer services, UT Southwestern’s growing presence in Fort Worth includes the nearby UT Southwestern Monty and Tex Moncrief Medical Center. This outpatient facility offers primary care and lab services, an onsite retail pharmacy, as well as specialty care clinics for cardiology, dermatology, endocrinology and endocrine surgery, neurology and neurosurgery, ophthalmology, otolaryngology (Ear-Nose-Throat), rheumatology and urology. In spring 2025, expanded imaging services will also be available within the Medical Center.

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