I had no side effects during my treatment process. It was a piece of cake. I'm more optimistic now about going on with my life. I feel I am healed. Currently, some 80 patients are treated each day at the Proton Center, with about half receiving prostate cancer treatment.
Patients come to the center from all across the U.S., as well as from numerous foreign countries.
Clinical applications of proton therapy have been available for decades, but the high cost of building a hospital-based proton center has limited its availability. The proton treatment center at Loma Linda University is currently the only of its kind in the U.S., but new clinical-based treatment centers in other cities are being planned. A center at Mass General, developed in cooperation with Harvard, is expected to open in Boston later this year. Proton therapy is being used in more than 20 cancer sites, and is also being used to treat other diseases. This site created by West Web Works, Inc. Send mail to webmaster for this site.