Mayo Clinic Receives $100M Gift for Cancer Centers

Mayo Clinic has received a $100 million gift from an Iowa philanthropist to put towards its new cancer centers in Phoenix and Rochester, Minn., according to a Phoenix Business Journal report.

Richard Jacobson, CEO of Jacobson Companies in Des Moines, Iowa, offered the largest living gift Mayo has ever received.

Mayo's new $400 million cancer centers are expected to open in 2016. They will feature proton beam and other state-of-the-art cancer therapies.

Read the Phoenix Business Journal report on a philanthropist's $100 million gift to Mayo Clinic.

Read more about Mayo Clinic:

- Mayo Clinic Raises $1.35B in Five-Year Campaign

- Mayo Clinic to Build $370M Proton Beam Therapy Facilities for Cancer Care


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