“When you’re going through cancer, you’re tired and you don’t want to be hopping from place to place,” said Sylvia Tyree, a 58-year-old Spotsylvania County resident who was treated for breast cancer at UVa in 1991 and 1994. “One-stop shopping would be nice.”
Within two years, patients like Tyree will have a more streamlined experience at UVa while getting treatment for cancer, a disease that is the nation’s second leading cause of death.