EDGEWOOD, Ky. — Six stories and 250,000 square feet dedicated to cancer research, treating patients and overall care will make up the new St. Elizabeth Cancer Center in Northern Kentucky.

According to Dr. Doug Flora, Executive Medical Director of Cancer Services, it's all state of the art, providing care for Tomosynthesis, mammograms, digital mammography, ultrasounds and theroscopy.

"One of the reasons to put these 40 providers under one roof is for multidisciplinary care, so that we can have patients say with breast cancer see her surgeon, her medical oncologist, which is what I do, her radiation oncologist, plastic surgeon, nutrition, financial counselor all in one visit," said Flora.

Inside the building will be more than 30 researchers at all times, working toward a cure for various types of cancers.

"A large component of this building is clinical trials and cutting-edge research to let our patients have access to things that otherwise they often have to travel to receive," said Flora.

They've also hired people with specific expertise in clinical research in tumor disciplines like lung cancer, melanoma and many others.

"The same thing will happen if you have rectal cancer or you have melanoma or a variety of other tumors with expertise specific to your tumor type," said Flora.

At the St. Elizabeth Cancer Center, the goal is to treat the patient wholly. Every aspect of the building is designed with the patient in mind.

The entire ground floor is for community use, to teach people whose lives have been touched by cancer about these diseases.

"Massage therapy, meditation suites, yoga therapy, art and music therapy, a demonstration teaching kitchen to teach people how food is medicine," said Flora.

So on arrival, a patient is able to get scanned. If the results aren't good, the radiologist will be there to go over the results with you immediately, do a biopsy if necessary, all done in one visit, instead of multiple.