PITTSBURGH & CHALFONT ST. GILES, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--With more than 10 million new cases every year, cancer has become one of the world’s most devastating diseases, killing an estimated 20,000 people each day. To help meet the growing demand for treatment, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) today announced collaboration with GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company, to develop cancer centers internationally. This effort will provide UPMC’s world-renowned cancer expertise to patients now lacking such care. GE Healthcare will provide and service all the medical equipment that it is capable of supplying to these facilities.
