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A method for treating a tumor of a patient in a treatment room with positively charged particles, comprising the steps of:delivering the positively charged particles from an accelerator along a beam transport path, the beam transport path redirectable as a function of time to yield a plurality of incident vectors of the positively charged particles into the treatment room;redirecting portions of the positively charged particles traveling along each of said plurality of incident vectors, with at least one output nozzle of said beam transport path, to the tumor;wherein a first vector, of said plurality of incident vectors, comprises a first direction entering the treatment room and intersecting the tumor,wherein a second vector, of said plurality of incident vectors, comprises a second direction entering the treatment room and not intersecting the tumor;said step of redirecting directing a first portion of the positively charged particles from the first vector to a first tumor treatment path entering a front of the tumor; andsaid step of redirecting directing a second portion of the positively charged particles from the second vector to a second tumor treatment path entering at least one of a side of the tumor and a back of the tumor relative to the front of the tumor. 2. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:treating the tumor with: (1) the first tumor treatment path entering the front of the tumor and (2) the second tumor treatment path entering the side of the tumor without rotating a gantry supporting a section of said beam transport path. 3. The method of claim 2, further comprising a step of:treating the tumor on opposite sides of an interfering component of the patient without rotation of the patient and without transmitting the positively charge particles through the interfering component using the first portion of the positively charged particles intersecting the front of the tumor and the second portion of the positively charged particles intersecting the back of the tumor. 4. The method of claim 3, wherein the interfering component comprises a portion of a nervous system of the patient. 5. The method of claim 2, further comprising the steps of:limiting the first portion of the positively charged particles to a Bragg peak energy not reaching an interfering component when treating the tumor at a proximal side of the interfering component; andsaid step redirecting scanning the second portion of the positively charged particles to a treatment vector tangential to a distal side of the interfering component. 6. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of:using a first beam path switching magnet to switch the beam transport path from a first statically positioned beamline, directing the first portion of the positively charged particles, to a second statically positioned beamline, directing the second portion of the positively charged particles, wherein said second statically positioned beamline comprises use of at least one beam turning magnet not used to turn said first statically positioned beamline. 7. The method of claim 6, further comprising the step of:within five seconds, treating the tumor using the first statically positioned beamline and the second statically positioned beamline. 8. The method of claim 6, further comprising the step of:using a second beam path switching magnet to switch to a third statically positioned beamline, wherein a third vector, of said plurality of incident vectors, comprises a third direction passing by the tumor without entering the tumor, said second direction and the third direction intersecting at an angle of greater than sixty degrees and less than eighty-five degrees as viewed in two-dimensions. 9. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of:sequentially disconnecting said output nozzle from a first beamline of said beam transport path, moving said output nozzle, and connecting said output nozzle to a second beamline of said beam transport path. 10. The method of claim 1, wherein the first vector and the second vector do not intersect in an isocenter point about which a gantry supporting a section of the beam transport path rotates. 11. The method of claim 2, further comprising the step of:prior to said step of redirecting, using at least one fiducial marker and at least one fiducial detector to determine a relative position of the patient and the first vector. 12. The method of claim 11, further comprising the step of:transforming a doctor approved tumor irradiation plan using an isocenter point to an irradiation plan calibrated to at least one of the plurality of incident vectors. 13. The method of claim 11, further comprising the step of:determining an unobstructed path from said exit nozzle to the patient using said at least one fiducial marker and said at least one fiducial detector. 14. The method of claim 13, wherein the first vector maintains a distance of at least two centimeters from the second vector. 15. The method of claim 13, further comprising the step of:offsetting the tumor of the patient, relative to an isocenter of a gantry system configured to move said output nozzle, by at least five inches on a first axis and by at least five inches on a second axis, the second axis perpendicular to the first axis. 16. An apparatus for treating a tumor of a patient in a treatment room with positively charged particles, comprising:a synchrotron;a beam transport path configured to deliver the positively charged particles from said synchrotron, the beam transport path redirectable as a function of time to yield a plurality of incident vectors, each of said plurality of incident vectors directed into the treatment room; andat least one output nozzle configured to redirect portions of the positively charged particles traveling along each of said plurality of incident vectors to the tumor,wherein a first vector, of said plurality of incident vectors, comprises a first direction entering the treatment room and intersecting the tumor,wherein a second vector, of said plurality of incident vectors, comprises a second direction entering the treatment room and not intersecting the tumor,said at least one output nozzle configured to: (1) redirect a first portion of the positively charged particles from the first vector to a first tumor treatment path entering a front of the tumor and (2) redirect a second portion of the positively charged particles from the second vector to a second tumor treatment path entering a side of the tumor relative to the front of the tumor.