>>Rep. Jo Ann Emerson joined Saint Francis Medical Center administrators and board members Thursday on the first tour of its Heart Hospital and Cancer Institute under construction.
The four-story, $84 million facility will open in July on schedule and on budget, said Saint Francis Medical Center president and CEO Steven Bjelich. About 70 new jobs will be added to the staff because of the expansion.
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The building contractor, Kiefner Brothers Inc., poured 85 truckloads of concrete for the three vaults in the new radiation oncology area to absorb the radiation released by the equipment. The rooms have 8-foot-thick walls and will house two linear accelerators and a CyberKnife.
The CyberKnife, a robotic radiosurgery system at Saint Francis will be the fourth CyberKnife in Missouri, Bjelich said. The CyberKnife is an alternative to traditional surgery in the treatment of tumors. It uses beams of radiation to destroy cancerous cells, Bjelich said. There are only about 100 such systems in the United States.
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