A bold new campaign is underway, and you can be part of it.
For the thousands of West Valley residents facing a cancer diagnosis each year, the road to healing shouldn’t begin with a long drive. Yet today, the Banner MD Anderson Radiation Oncology Clinic at Banner Boswell Medical Center is operating at full capacity — turning away roughly 15% of patients who must travel to Glendale or Gilbert to complete their radiation treatment.
That’s about to change.
Sun Health Foundation is proudly launching a two-year, $6 million philanthropic campaign as part of a $15.6 million effort to expand Banner MD Anderson radiation oncology services at Banner Boswell Medical Center — a transformative investment that will double daily patient capacity from 32 to 60–70 patients per day and bring the very latest cancer-fighting technology to our community.
Phase one of the effort will add a state-of-the-art TrueBeam® linear accelerator to the Banner MD Anderson Radiation Oncology Clinic at Banner Boswell Medical Center, making it a two-machine rather than a single machine program. The TrueBeam system is capable of targeting tumors with sub-millimeter precision and protecting healthy surrounding tissue. Phase two will replace the clinic’s current linear accelerator with a second TrueBeam system and add five exam rooms to the clinic.
The expansion will increase daily capacity, improve scheduling reliability, and enable a broader range of advanced treatments right her in the West Valley.
For a patient making daily trips to the clinic over several weeks, these are life-changing improvements. “Because patients come for radiation multiple times, they become part of the Boswell family,” says Dr. Ravinder Clayton, Radiation Oncologist, Banner MD Anderson at Banner Boswell Medical Center. “They deserve to stay close to home.”
Radiation therapy is part of treatment for approximately 60% of cancer diagnoses. For older adults managing fatigue, side effects, and transportation challenges, receiving gold-standard care within their own community is a critical part of healing.
Your support makes that possible. To learn how to get involved, contact Pamela Gralton Kohnen at [email protected] or (623) 471-8502 or Stephanie Bridgeo at [email protected] or (623) 471-8501.
