Access to advanced cancer care is expanding in Norman and south-central Oklahoma with the grand opening of OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center at Norman Regional.

The new 50,000-square-foot facility was made possible through a partnership between OU Health and Norman Regional Health System. It combines medical and radiation oncology services in one location off I-35 on the Norman Regional Hospital campus.

OU President Joseph Harroz said the journey to this moment started in 2001, when the state Legislature passed a bill asking the University of Oklahoma to create a comprehensive cancer center and achieve a National Cancer Institute designation .

The OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center opened in 2011 in Oklahoma City and achieved its designation in 2018, making it one of 7

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