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What’s Happening in the Proton World

Posted by Jim Tuggey on December 1st, 2007 — Posted in General

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.