Millions of people to benefit from region's new Cancer hospital

A new hospital that aims to transform cancer care in a region that is one of the worst affected by the disease has opened in the heart of Liverpool.

The 11-storey Clatterbridge Cancer Centre – Liverpool will deliver highly-specialist care including pioneering immunotherapy and the most advanced forms of radiotherapy to the 2.4 million people in Cheshire and Merseyside, and those in surrounding areas.

The new hospital is part of a £162m investment in expanding and transforming cancer services across Cheshire and Merseyside, a region where people are more likely to develop the disease than almost anywhere else in the country.

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the new hospital, will continue to provide specialist cancer care at its existing sites in Wirral, Aintree, and other acute hospitals across the region and in the community.

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