Loma Linda is in the process of performing various improvements to the synchrotron and proton beam transport system to allow treatment of large fields like those required to treat breast cancer and Hodgkin's Disease. Proton treatment begins at Berkeley Radiation Laboratory. Loma Linda University Medical Center researchers begin focusing on charged-particle treatment. Proton Therapy Cooperative Group established to promote international cooperation in hospital-based proton beam therapy. Loma Linda University Medical Center announces intent to build first hospital-based proton treatment facility.
Treatment begins for patients with brain tumors and tumors of the head and neck.
A-level floor named in his honor. Patients from 41 states and 19 countries have been treated. Department of radiation medicine treating 100 proton therapy patients and 100 x-ray therapy patients per day. Collaborative clinical research continues at Loma Linda University Medical Center through participation in cooperative groups and in collaboration with other proton therapy investigators in the Proton Radiation Oncology Group. Loma Linda University Medical Center investigators are working on several protocols, including those for lung, breast, esophagus, liver, and bladder cancers.