UT Health Northeast in Tyler, TX, and MD Anderson Cancer Center announced a partnership to provide greater access to the most advanced cancer care available for adult patients in northeast Texas and the surrounding region.
Through the partnership, UT Health Northeast’s Cancer Treatment and Prevention Center joins MD Anderson Cancer Network, an international collaboration of hospitals and health systems that share and contribute to MD Anderson’s mission to end cancer. The center in Tyler will be known as UT Health Northeast MD Anderson Cancer Center when it officially launches in 2017.
UT Health Northeast’s cancer program will be clinically and operationally integrated with MD Anderson Cancer Center, joining only six other healthcare institutions across the U.S. and three facilities in Brazil, Spain and Turkey. Enhanced local access to MD Anderson’s multidisciplinary care, treatment innovations, standards of care and clinical trials will be hallmarks of the partnership.
The two organizations will join forces in the recruitment of all future program physicians and allied health staff. A national search to hire a medical director to lead the new program is planned.
