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Yale-New Haven Hospital and the Need for a Comprehensive Cancer Center fact sheet

• Nearly nine million people are currently living with cancer in the United States.
• Approximately 9,000 children will be diagnosed with a new case of childhood cancer this year.
• In his or her lifetime, one in two men, and one in three women develop cancer. Virtually everyone knows someone who has cancer and also knows someone who died of cancer.
• An estimated 48 Connecticut residents, 12 of whom live in the New Haven area, are diagnosed with cancer each day.
• An estimated 20 Connecticut residents, five from New Haven, die of cancer each day.
• 7,000 Connecticut residents die of cancer each year.
• Nearly 3,000 Connecticut women will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year; 530 will die.

• Yale-New Haven Hospital is ranked by U.S.News & World Report among the nation's best hospitals for the quality of its cancer services.
• More than 3,000 cancer patients will come to Yale-New Haven Hospital for cancer treatment this year.
• Yale-New Haven Hospital pioneered many breakthrough cancer treatments, including the first use of chemotherapy, radiation therapy and bone marrow transplantation.

• Yale-New Haven Hospital currently treats cancer patients in six different hospital facilities. A new comprehensive clinical Cancer Center maximizes the hospital's ability to integrate in one place science and cancer care, increase efficiencies and create the best possible environment for multidisciplinary care.
• A comprehensive Cancer Center ensures access to world-class cancer care for all patients whose lives depend on it; brings together the hospital and medical school's best minds to develop new methods to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer; and will attract additional world-class talent to Yale-New Haven Hospital and the New Haven community.

• 350 construction jobs at peak
• Up to 400 new, permanent full-time Cancer Center jobs, with above-market wages and benefits.
• More than $4 million in building permits to the city of New Haven.
• An additional $3 - 4 million annual payments in PILOT (Payment In Lieu Of Taxes) to the city of New Haven.

• 14-story building, 497,000 sq.ft., at cost of approximately $430 million.
• 112 inpatient beds, expanded operating rooms and radiology services, women's cancer center.
• Can meet expected 20 percent plus growth rate in patient demand in coming decade.

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Last revised: November 30, 2004 (jt)

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