{"id":44,"date":"2007-12-01T18:53:37","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T01:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/?p=44"},"modified":"2007-12-12T19:14:39","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T02:14:39","slug":"whats-happening-in-the-proton-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"What’s Happening in the Proton World"},"content":{"rendered":"

WORLDWIDE PROTON THERAPY FACILITIES<\/center>
\nProton Therapy facilities in Operation (Ref: Particle Therapy Co-Operative Group):<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n

Name and Country<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

Online Since<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

Treated as of<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

ITEP Moscow, Russia
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSt Petersburg Russia
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPSI Villigen Switzerland
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDubna Russia
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tUppsala Sweden
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tClatterbridge England
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLoma Linda California USA
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNice France
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOrsay France
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tiThemba Labs S. Africa
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMPRI Bloomington IN. USA
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTRIUMF, Vancouver Canada
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHMI Berlin Germany
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNCC Kashiwa Japan
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHIBMC Hyogo Japan
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPMRC(2) Tsukuba Japan
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNPTC, MGH Boston MA USA
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tINFN-LNS Catania Italy
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tShizouka Japan
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWakasa WERC,Tsuruga Japan
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWPTC, Zibo China
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMD Anderson Houston TX USA
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFPTI Jacksonville FL USA<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

1969
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1975
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1984
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1999
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1989
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1989
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1990
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1991
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1991
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1993
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1993
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1995
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1998
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1998
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2001
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2001
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2001
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2002
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2003
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2002
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2004
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2006
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2006<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

3927 Dec 2006
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1320 Oct 2006
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t4646 Dec 2006
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t318 July 2006
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t738 Dec 2006
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1584 Dec 2006
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t11414 Dec 2006
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t3129 Sep 2006
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t3766 Dec 2006
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t486 Dec 2006
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t220 Dec 2006
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t111 Sep 2006
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t829 Dec 2006
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t462 Nov 2006
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1099 Sep 2006
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t930 Jul 2006
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2080 Oct 2006
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t114 Oct 2006
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t410 Nov 2006
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t33 Aug 2006
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t270 Jul 2006
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t114 Dec 2006
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t15 Dec 2006<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

TOTAL AS SHOWN IN THE REPORT – 47,131 (Includes 9,116 as below)<\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

NOW LET\u2019S LOOK AT WHO\u2019S BUILDING THIS CAPABILITY<\/center><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n

Name and Country<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

Expected Opening<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

RPTC Munich Germany
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPSI Villigen Switzerland
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNCC Seoul Korea
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCNAO, Pavia Italy
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHeidelberg\/Darmstadt Germany
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWPE Essen Germany
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPTC Marburg Germany
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tUPenn USA<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

2007
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2007\/2008
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2007
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2009
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2007
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2009
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2010
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2009<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

(All of the above under construction)<\/i><\/p>\n

NOW LET\u2019S LOOK AT WHO\u2019S PLANNING THIS CAPABILITY <\/center><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n

Name and Country<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

Expected Opening<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Med-Austron Austria
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTrento, Italy
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tiThemba Labs South Africa
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRPTC Koeln Germany
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCPO Orsay France
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNorthern Illinois PT USA<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

2011
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2010
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2009
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2011
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2010
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2011<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

(All of the above extracted from the ptcog report for 2007.)<\/i><\/p>\n

NOW LET\u2019S LOOK AT WHO ELSE IS PLANING THIS CAPABILITY<\/center><\/p>\n

\u201cOklahoma City<\/b> 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.
\nProCure, 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.
\nChandler 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.\u201d (Excerpted from their Press release.)<\/p>\n

Hampton, VA – Hampton University<\/b> 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.
\n“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.”
\nProton 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.
\nThe 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.
\nThe 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.)<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}