Middlesex Hospital has expanded its cancer services to the shoreline, opening its second cancer center location in Westbrook.
The facility, which includes a new $2.6 million linear accelerator for radiation therapy, offers the same services found at Middlesex’s Cancer Center in Middletown, including medical oncology, infusion, genetic counseling, survivorship services and integrative therapy. The center also has a new CT scanner, part of about $4 million in new equipment in the cancer center, according to hospital spokeswoman Amanda Falcone.
Patients will have access to the latest technology and the hospital’s collaborative relationship with Mayo Clinic.
The new cancer center is at the Middlesex Hospital Shoreline Medical Center, which opened in 2014 at 250 Flat Rock Place. Middlesex spent about $28 million building the 60,000-square-foot medical center. The new cancer center occupies some of that existing space, plus roughly 3,000 square feet were added to specially equip the space for the new linear accelerator, Falcone said. An earlier report cited that expansion at about $1.2 million.
Middlesex’s first cancer center opened in 2002 near the hospital.
