Archive for December, 2007

MORE PROTON CENTERS

Monday, December 31st, 2007

A 12/26/07 article in the New York Times, Cancer Fight Goes Nuclear, With Heavy Price Tag brought the Proton up front. Not all positive but all in all alerts a great number of people to the Proton capability.

Price seems to be the concern in this article; while *I* am sure that Curing Cancer should be at the forefront above all else!

Nothing will stop this important Proton therapy. ALL my systems work today, December 31, 2007. We now have two additional Proton Therapy Centers developing, an increase from the number just reported in my Blog of early December:

A second proton center in the heavily populated Chicago area

Central DuPage would like to see its first patient by 2010. Jim Spear, the hospital’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, said it’s ready to break ground on its Winfield campus “the very day” of board approval. The hospital plans to spend about $140 million on its facility. “We have everything else in place,” he said. “All our financing is secured (from private investors). All our architectural plans for building the building are secured. We have equipment on order. So we’re technically in good shape to start. All we need is the proper approval by the planning board.” Central DuPage also is partnered with ProCure Treatment Centers Inc., a Bloomington, Ind.-based firm that specializes in developing proton therapy centers.

And, a Second Proton Center in Oklahoma City:

Bloomington, Ind.-based ProCure Treatment Centers is building a four-gantry proton center in far northwest Oklahoma City along the Kilpatrick Turnpike.

ProCure has said the cost of its Oklahoma City treatment center, the first of several, will approach $100 million. ProCure has also raised private investment capital to build its treatment centers.

My personal treatment has resulted in NO Side Effects from a NON-INVASIVE treatment with Protons over 8 years and four months ago.

Just diagnosed? Send me an e-mail at jjtug @ msn.com for information.

What’s Happening in the Proton World

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

WORLDWIDE PROTON THERAPY FACILITIES

Proton Therapy facilities in Operation (Ref: Particle Therapy Co-Operative Group):

Name and Country

Online Since

Treated as of

ITEP Moscow, Russia
St Petersburg Russia
PSI Villigen Switzerland
Dubna Russia
Uppsala Sweden
Clatterbridge England
Loma Linda California USA
Nice France
Orsay France
iThemba Labs S. Africa
MPRI Bloomington IN. USA
TRIUMF, Vancouver Canada
HMI Berlin Germany
NCC Kashiwa Japan
HIBMC Hyogo Japan
PMRC(2) Tsukuba Japan
NPTC, MGH Boston MA USA
INFN-LNS Catania Italy
Shizouka Japan
Wakasa WERC,Tsuruga Japan
WPTC, Zibo China
MD Anderson Houston TX USA
FPTI Jacksonville FL USA

1969
1975
1984
1999
1989
1989
1990
1991
1991
1993
1993
1995
1998
1998
2001
2001
2001
2002
2003
2002
2004
2006
2006

3927 Dec 2006
1320 Oct 2006
4646 Dec 2006
318 July 2006
738 Dec 2006
1584 Dec 2006
11414 Dec 2006
3129 Sep 2006
3766 Dec 2006
486 Dec 2006
220 Dec 2006
111 Sep 2006
829 Dec 2006
462 Nov 2006
1099 Sep 2006
930 Jul 2006
2080 Oct 2006
114 Oct 2006
410 Nov 2006
33 Aug 2006
270 Jul 2006
114 Dec 2006
15 Dec 2006

TOTAL AS SHOWN IN THE REPORT – 47,131 (Includes 9,116 as below)

NOTE: Harvard in conjunction with Mass. General Hospital started treatment in 1961, treating 9,116 people prior to moving to their new facility – Francis H. Burr Proton Therapy Center – Massachusetts General Hospital – Harvard, Boston, MA

All of these numbers are as of the Month and Year mentioned in the right column, Loma Linda at this time is well over 12,000 persons treated so the actual number is larger.

NOW LET’S LOOK AT WHO’S BUILDING THIS CAPABILITY

Name and Country

Expected Opening

RPTC Munich Germany
PSI Villigen Switzerland
NCC Seoul Korea
CNAO, Pavia Italy
Heidelberg/Darmstadt Germany
WPE Essen Germany
PTC Marburg Germany
UPenn USA

2007
2007/2008
2007
2009
2007
2009
2010
2009

(All of the above under construction)

NOW LET’S LOOK AT WHO’S PLANNING THIS CAPABILITY

Name and Country

Expected Opening

Med-Austron Austria
Trento, Italy
iThemba Labs South Africa
RPTC Koeln Germany
CPO Orsay France
Northern Illinois PT USA

2011
2010
2009
2011
2010
2011

(All of the above extracted from the ptcog report for 2007.)

NOW LET’S LOOK AT WHO ELSE IS PLANING THIS CAPABILITY

Oklahoma City is about to get another significant tool in its medical toolbox, as Chris Chandler, senior vice president of sales and marketing for ProCure Treatment Centers, puts it.
ProCure, along with partners Radiation Medicine Associates (RMA) and Radiation Oncology Associates (ROA), said on Tuesday it will open the nation’s first private practice proton treatment center in 2009.
Chandler said a location and specific timeline for the center will be announced in March. The 55,000-square-foot facility is expected to cost more than $100 million to build and will have more than 100 full-time employees who will make in excess of $100,000 each. It will provide treatment to more than 1,500 cancer patients per year, and half of those will be from outside the metro area.” (Excerpted from their Press release.)

Hampton, VA – Hampton University has received the final approval needed to begin construction on the Hampton University Proton Beam Therapy Center, which will be used in the treatment of cancer. Approvals from the Eastern Virginia Health Systems Agency and the Virginia Department of Health led to the Center receiving the certificate of public need, a requirement for all major health-care projects in Virginia.
“This project will bring state-of-the-art cancer treatment to Virginia,” said HU President William R. Harvey. “The Hampton University Proton Beam Therapy Center will ease human suffering and save lives.”
Proton beam therapy is a type of radiation that can precisely target tumors while sparing surrounding tissue and causing far fewer side effects than traditional radiation. Currently there are only three other proton beam therapy centers operating in the country, located at Indiana University; Loma Linda Medical Center in Southern California and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. About 5,000 treatment slots are available at these three facilities.
The city of Hampton has donated six acres of land off Magruder Boulevard to Hampton University to construct the Proton Beam Therapy Center. Once construction begins, the $189 million Center will take 36 months to build.
The Center will treat about 2,000 patients a year and will focus primarily on prostate cancer but will also treat patients with breast, lung eye and pediatric cancers. (Excerpted from their Press release.)

There are other PROTON TREATMENT CENTERS in PLANNING leading to a Proton network that will greatly enhance the ability of our Doctors to treat Prostate Cancer and many other cancerous and non-cancerous conditions with little or NO side effects.