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Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center is active in the treatment and early detection of cancer.[1] From the outset the Center was created to be available to all community members in need of its services—regardless of ability to pay. This charge has remained near and dear to the Center’s mission.[citation needed]In 1971 the closest choices for radiation treatment for cancer patients in southeast Louisiana were in Texas or Alabama. They could not stay home and get radiation therapy.