VICTORIA'S new $1 billion cancer centre may have an extra floor devoted to private patients.
Health Minister David Davis said the Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute's board was considering applying to add one floor for private patients to the new Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre (VCCC) being built at the Melbourne suburb of Parkville.
The proposal would need to be financially viable to get the green light, Mr Davis said.
"It would have to be clearly in the interests of Victorian cancer patients," he told reporters on Monday.
"The question would be in part whether the additional capacity that is provided, private capacity ... on top of the public capacity, would be of advantage to Victorian cancer patients."
Opposition Leader Daniel Andrews said the entire cancer centre should be available to every Victorian, regardless of whether or not they could afford insurance.
"Cancer does not discriminate based on your wealth, based on your income, based on your private health fund membership," Mr Andrews told journalists.
The VCCC is expected to open in 2016.
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre spokeswoman Emma Liepa said a business case for the proposal was in its early stages and had yet to be presented to the board.
"We are not compromising anything that exists at the moment...and it would never impact the provision of public cancer care to our patients," she told AAP.
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