Erlanger to bolster cancer program

from TimesFreePress.com:

>>Erlanger hospital has received state approval to buy new equipment and establish a specialty center that will improve its cancer program dramatically, officials said at Thursday night’s board of trustees meeting.

The Tennessee Health Services and Development Agency this week approved Erlanger’s request to purchase the “CyberKnife” radiosurgery technology, which provides for noninvasive surgery to dissolve tumor tissue. The cost to open the center will be $7.3 million.