The National Association for Proton Therapy (NAPT) is registered as an independent, non-profit, public benefit corporation providing education and awareness for the public, professional and governmental communities. Founded in 1990 it promotes the therapeutic benefits of proton therapy for cancer treatment in the U.S. and abroad.

Proton News . . .

• TODAY SHOW MAKES POSITIVE PROTON POINT . . . (read story)
• AMA Study Says Early Radiation May Cure Recurrent Prostate Cancer . . . (read story)
• Wall Street Journal Artical Off the (Proton) Beam . . . (read story)
• Readers want to know. . . Why was Proton Therapy not mentioned in NEWSWEEK - July 2003 . . . (read story)
• Protons, Along with Posititve Attititude and Spirit, Helps Patient Fight Lung Cancer - May 2003 . . . (read story)
  

Some five decades after the first human was treated with a proton beam, there are some 20 proton facilities in operation worldwide. In the USA, three proton centers are delivering proton therapy treatment. They are:

1. Loma Linda University Medical Center in southern, California. Loma Linda has treated about 10,000 patients since opening in 1990, about half of those patients  being men with prostate cancer.
2. The Northeast Proton Center at Mass. General Hospital in Boston, and;
3. The Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute at Indiana University, Bloomington.

The M.D. Anderson Cancer Center's Proton Therapy Center in Houston, now under construction, will begin treating patients in early 2006.