The Velindre Cancer Centre ( cy, Canolfan Ganser Felindre) is a specialist facility caring for

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patients in

Whitchurch, Cardiff Whitchurch () is a suburb and Community (Wales), community in the north of Cardiff, capital of Wales. It is approximately 3 miles north of the centre of the city on the A470 road and A4054 road. It falls within the Whitchurch & Tongwynlais ward. ...

, Wales. It is managed by the

Velindre University NHS Trust Felindre is a rural village in southern Wales. Felindre is located in the far north of Swansea, in the electoral ward of Mawr. The nearby Lower Lliw Reservoirs are a popular venue for walking and fishing. The water mill in the village was worki ...

History

The facility was established as Velindre Hospital in 1956. The name is a corruption of ''Melin Tref'' (). The first

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was installed in 1961. The hospital became Velindre Cancer Centre in 1994 and a new radiotherapy unit opened in 2000. A new

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, designed by Dow Jones Architects and funded by the Wales Government opened in 2019. In July 2022, the comedian

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, who is a patron of the centre, announced that he was being treated for cancer at the centre.

References

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