Cancer unit bid goes to Westminster - Carlisle News & Star 25th October 2008

Monday, October 27, 2008

THE move to build a new £15m cancer unit in South Cumbria has been taken to parliament. NHS Cumbria, the county’s Primary Care Trust, is working with other trusts to assess the feasibility of developing a new facility in South Cumbria to provide radiotherapy and chemotherapy treatments, with WGH a potential site. The oncology unit at Furness General Hospital in Barrow already provides chemotherapy but cancer patients needing radiotherapy have to travel to Preston or Carlisle.

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