Billings oncology center closing

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By The Associated Press

Story Published: Mar 10, 2010 at 10:26 AM MST

Story Updated: Mar 10, 2010 at 10:26 AM MST

BILLINGS - A cancer treatment center that opened in Billings in 1987 will close this fall, and its patients will be treated at a new facility.

St. Vincent Healthcare announced Tuesday that the Northern Rockies Radiation Oncology Center will close at the end of October.

The center was a partnership between St. Vincent and Billings Clinic until last year, when Billings Clinic withdrew from the agreement to offer its own radiation services at a new cancer center at its downtown campus.

At the time, both hospitals said the Northern Rockies center would remain open.

On Tuesday, St. Vincent said its cancer patients would begin receiving radiation treatment at Frontier Cancer Centers and Blood Institute. Frontier is a new cancer center being built by a St. Vincent affiliate and scheduled to open in August.

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