{"id":545,"date":"2013-09-03T21:44:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T02:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/?p=545"},"modified":"2013-09-09T22:20:55","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T03:20:55","slug":"at-long-last-a-proton-treatment-center-coming-to-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/?p=545","title":{"rendered":"At Long Last &#8211; A Proton Treatment Center Coming to Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Protons_in_Dallas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Protons_in_Dallas.jpg\" alt=\"Protons_in_Dallas\" width=\"650\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-547\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Protons_in_Dallas.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Protons_in_Dallas-300x115.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nToday in Dallas, Texas comes news of a proposal to build a Dallas Proton Treatment Center that is estimated to provide proton treatment to 2,000 patients annually.<\/p>\n<p>This will be a long overdue gain for Dallas and treatments would be slated to begin in 2016 when the facility is completed.<\/p>\n<p>I often forget that my Prostate was a \u201cCancer\u201d problem and that the Loma Linda Proton treatment facility&#8217;s capabilities in Loma Linda California was the answer in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>For over fourteen years since my Proton Treatment I have held a PSA of 0.1, down from my PSA of 15.9 in 1999 before my proton treatment started. This week I had a final check with my Urologist in the Dallas\/Fort Worth area and he sent me on my way after a final visit. Always makes an eighty-three year old happy.<\/p>\n<p>You can read about this Dallas Proton facility in today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/cityhallblog.dallasnews.com\/2013\/09\/if-city-council-approves-construction-of-cancer-facility-at-dallas-market-center-along-stemmons-could-begin-in-june.html\/\">Section B of the Dallas Morning News<\/a>, September 3, 2013. Scott Goldstein, staff writer.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from proton center development, the usual debates are going on that try to denigrate the value of \u201cProton Therapy\u201d. The over 50 men that I have personally sponsored since early 2000 are happy with their treatment and it is amazing that Loma Linda has been successful with Protons in over 6,000 men.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for reading. Keep looking at the many \u201cVideos\u201d on this site \u2013 I always learn a lot from them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in Dallas, Texas comes news of a proposal to build a Dallas Proton Treatment Center that is estimated to provide proton treatment to 2,000 patients annually. This will be a long overdue gain for Dallas and treatments would be slated to begin in 2016 when the facility is completed. I often forget that my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545","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\/545"}],"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=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550,"href":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}