THE SCRIPPS MERCY O’TOOLE Breast Care Center opened on the campus of Scripps Mercy Hospital San Diego. The $5.3 million facility is located on the second floor of the Scripps Medical Building, and replaces the temporary breast health facility that opened last year near Scripps Mercy Hospital.
How’s this for a paradox: The better cancer centers become at keeping patients alive, the more expensive cancer care becomes. This brutal tradeoff hits harder in rural areas, where the cancer burden is higher and the investigator and clinical trial representation is lower.
