Updated News - Press Releases

The following links connect to sites containing information about proton treatment and research.

• First Proton Center in Tennessee Approved
  

• One small step for proton centers, one giant leap for radiation therapy (A DOTmed Business News special report - May 2010)
  

• Oncology Times: Proton Beam Radiation: Balancing Evidence-Based Use with the Bottom Line (May, 2010)
  

• 5-Year Old Healthy and Happy After Proton Therapy at M.D. Anderson. "He's a Tough Kid"
  By Cancerwise Blogger on April 30, 2010
  

• The Heated Debate: ACCELERATING PROTONS COULD CONQUER CANCER, BUT AT WHAT PRICE?
  Amercian College of Radiology Bulletin, March 2010
  

• Cancer Center to be Built in Franklin NJ Will Offer High-Tech Treatment
  

• Northern Illinois University Continues Its Medical Research Work 
  

• ProCure Cancer Foundation Delivers First Grants
  Foundation Provides Assistance with Nonmedical Expenses for Proton Therapy Patients
  (Business Wire - February 2, 2010)

• NAPT Responds to President's State of the Union Address
  

• Benefits, costs weigh on proton therapy
  NPRs Market Place

• UF Proton Therapy Institute and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital to Collaborate on Clinicial Study
  Memphis, Tenn. (November 9, 2009)

• First Patients Complete Treatment at Procure Proton Therapy Center in Oklahoma City
  Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - (November 12, 2009)

• DOTmed Tours UPenn Proton Center
  A sneak peak at the state-of-the-art facility in Philadelphia. (October 21, 2009)

• Diagnostic Imaging Article Takes on AHRQ Report: Defends Proton Therapy Development
  

• UK to Invest in Proton Therapy Centers After Boy's Jacksonville Treatment
  Alex Barnes, now 5, is cancer-free after his treatment last fall at the UF Proton Therapy Institute, his mom says
  

• ProCure's Oklahoma City Center Opens: Sixth Proton Facility
  

• Proton Therapy Update: The Need Never Ends for High-Tech Cancer Treatment Facilities
  Reprinted by permission of DOTmed.com, Inc.  Copyright 2009 DOTmed.com.
  Inc.  All Rights Reserved. DOTmed.com, Inc. makes no warranties or
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• Accelerators shrink to meet growing demand for proton therapy - Physics Today March 2009
  

• A Forbes Magazine Article on Proton Therapy: The $150 Million Zapper (Mar. 09)
  

• ProCure's First Proton Therapy Center Located in Oklahoma City Set to Open Summer 2009
  

• The Power of Proton Therapy: A Feature Article in Symmetry Magazine (Jan. 09)
  

• Proton beam therapy: Is it the future of radiation? A Cover Story in HemOnc Today (Dec. 08)
  

• HU Proton Therapy Institute Construction Complete (Dec. 08)
  

• Proton Therapy on NPR's "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross: An Interview with Dr. William Hanson of UPENN
  

• BBC News in UK Say British Cancer Patients Miss Out on Proton Therapy (Nov. 08)
  

• NIU Graduate Student Wins Physics Award for Work on Proton Computed Tomography (Oct. 6, 08)
  

• Proton Therapy: A Success Story Made Known on the Today Show (Aug. 08)
  

• South Florida Proton Center Announces Plans for Two Sites Including the University of Miami Medical Campus
  

• NIU Partners With Renown Architectural Firm VOA For Its Proton Center Design
  

• Brain Cancer Patient Finds a New (proton) Beam of Hope
  

• UPENN's Steve Hahn Championed Protons (June 08)
  

• NIU Selects Varian to Build Its 90-ton Cyclotron, Breaks Ground in June (May 08)
  

• University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute Sets Patient Start-Up Record (May 08)
  

• MPRI at Indiana University Stands Up for Little People  (24,234kb PDF)
  
  
• The Promise of Proton-Beam Therapy: This radiation treatment for cancer patients pinpoints tumors with precision ---but not everyone can get it  (U.S. News and World Report, April 08)
  
  
• The Promise of Proton Therapy is Two-fold . . . Less toxicity and higher cure rates than achievable with X-ray therapy.    By Dr. Nancy Price Mendenhall, Medical Director, University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute, Oncology Issues, 2007
  
  
• A new 'gold standard' against cancer? (April 2008)

• Prostate Cancer Patients Find New Road to Recover in Florida (January 2008)

• New York Times Front Page Article on Proton Therapy Raises Level of Awareness (December 26, 2007)

• Proton Therapy Innovator gets Hero's Treatment at Loma Linda Center
  

• Northern Illinois University Targets Spring Groundbreaking for Proton Therapy Center in DuPage, Illinois (December 6, 2007)

• The Cutting Edge: Killing Cancer With Protons (July/August 2007)
  (Reprinted from The Saturday Evening Post Magazine, 2007 Saturday Evening Post Society, www.saturdayeveningpost.com)
  
  
• NIU's Proton Therapy Facility Available to Chicago Region Cancer Patients by 2011 (June 2007)
  
  
• Indiana's MPRI Growing: Adds Patients, Equipment, Staff (June 10, 2007)
  
  
• Loma Linda Honors Proton Pioneer by Re-Naming Proton Facility (June 2007)

• Cancer at cutting edge of nuclear medicine (by Benjamin Weller - Indianapolis Star )
  
  
• Cancer Therapy - Catching the Proton Wave
  (American Health Association magazine - Hospitals & Health Networks ®)

• MPRI treats first patient using robotic gantry system (Indiana University - March 28, 2007)
  

• Cancer and apathy - HU's proton treatment center deserves more support
  
  
• Q-C man travels to California for cancer treatment
  
  
• Proton News from the BBC: - Particle physics on the cancer ward
  
  
• Protons and Prayer - When tumor threatens amputation, Farragut teen becomes pediatric pioneer in Texas (January 8, 2007)
  
  
• Voice of America says New Cancer Treatment Therapy Gives Hope to Millions (November, 2006)
  
  
• See the Proton Process From Start to Finish (The Florida Times Union - July 2006)
  
  
• M.D. Anderson Opens New Proton Therapy Center (Houston Chronicle - July 2006)
  
  
• This thing could save your life (Jacksonville Daily Record - 2006)
  
  
• New ASTRO Publication: Radiation Therapy for Prostate Cancer: Facts to Help Patients Make an Informed Decision (May, 2006)
  
  
• More US Hospitals Offering Proton Beam Therapy (NewsUSA)
  
  
• Proton Beam Center Continues to Fight Cancer (March, 2005)
  
  
• Proton Therapy a Viable Option Against Prostate Cancer, July 2004
  
  
• Patient Demand for Proton Therapy Spurs New Growth and Development , April 2004
  
  
• Proton Cancer Therapy Treatment to Expand into the Midwest Region , January 30, 2003
  
  
• Proton Therapy  Prostate Cancer Patients Share Common Bond , June 13, 2002
  
  
• Men With Prostate Cancer Feel Confident With Proton Therapy , March 28, 2002
  
  
• Proton Therapy Now Spans Coast To Coast , December 10, 2001
  
  
• Studies Show Promise In Treating Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancers , September 26, 2001
  
  
• Pro Golfer Ken Venturi Cancer-free After Proton Therapy , June 5, 2001
  
  
• Proton Therapy Helps Cancer Patients Survive , March 27, 2001
  
  
• New Proton Center 'Scanning' Method Will Help Breast Cancer Patients , October 12, 2000
  
  
• Proton Cancer Survivors Join To Celebrate Life , October 10, 2000
  
  
• Robert R. Wilson: Remembered As "Father Of Proton Therapy" , October 10, 2000 
  
  
• Impotency Rate Has Prostate Cancer Patients Seeking Proton Beam Therapy , March 29, 2000
  
  
• Proton Therapy Now Targets Lung Cancer - Update November 23, 1999
  
  
• Proton Therapy Now Targets Lung Cancer , May 18, 1999
  
  
• Protons Show Promise In Treating Macular Degeneration , March 3, 1999
  
  
• New Prostate Cancer Study Shows Success Of Proton Therapy , January 7, 1999
  
  
• Protons Successfully Treat Thousands Of Cancer Patients , June 18, 1998
  
  
• Proton Beams Emerge As Gold Standard In Therapy , June 18, 1998
  
  
• Proton Therapy Effective In Fighting Children's Tumors , April 15, 1998

 

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