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OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center Breaks Ground on Major Tulsa Expansion
The 176,100-square-foot facility will improve access to National Cancer Institute-designated care and clinical trials as outpatient cancer needs rise 14.2% by 2034 in northeast Oklahoma.
- On Nov. 13, 2025, OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center celebrated groundbreaking for a 176,000-square-foot outpatient facility at the University of Oklahoma's Schusterman Center campus to expand National Cancer Institute-designated care access.
- High regional cancer rates and projections show about 24,000 new cancer diagnoses in 2025 statewide, with roughly 8,300 in northeast Oklahoma and a 14.2% projected increase through 2034.
- The new Tulsa facility will feature 70 exam rooms, 45 infusion spaces, three linear accelerators, MRI and PET-CT, plus dedicated clinical trial space and Oklahoma's Phase I clinical trials program.
- Public-Private partnerships led by Charlie and Peggy Stephenson enabled the expansion, with contributions from Tribal partners and the Oklahoma Legislature, while more than 20 patients enrolled in trials this year.
- Amid recent openings in Norman and plans for McAlester, OU Health positions the expansion to fulfill a vision more than two decades in the making and aims to reverse northeast Oklahoma's historically low clinical trial participation.
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