Though not a patient who has received Proton Therapy nor likely to be in foreseeable future, I do get the monthly newsletter BOB - Brothers of the Balloon that this month listed the currently active Proton centers
Not sure if link is available to general public, so cutting and pasting the article too
www.protonbob.com/newsltr.asp"Proton Therapy:
15th Proton Center
opens in the U.S.
Twenty-four years ago, in 1990, Loma Linda University Medical Center began treating patients at its new proton treatment center. It was a huge risk and a substantial financial commitment for the medical center. To reach that point, Dr. James Slater and his team of physicians, physicists, and engineers had to literally invent ways to image the tumor, deliver, rotate and focus the beam, and create other new technologies supporting this leading-edge treatment. Prior to the Loma Linda facility, all proton treatment in the U.S. was being done in physics laboratories using a fixed beam. Today, many of the novel approaches designed by LLUMC are still being built into the newest proton centers around the world.
With the
opening of the new Scripps proton center in San Diego, CA, the number of proton centers in the U.S. is now at 15. Here is the complete list:
James M. Slater, M.D. Proton Treatment and Research Center at Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, CA
Indiana University Health Proton Therapy Center, Bloomington, IN
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center’s Proton Center, Houston, TX
University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute, Jacksonville, FL
ProCure Proton Therapy Center, Oklahoma City, OK
Hampton University Proton Therapy Institute, Hampton, VA
CDH Proton Center, Chicago, IL
Roberts Proton Therapy Center at UPENN, Philadelphia, PA
ProCure Proton Therapy Center, NJ/MetroNY, Somerset, NJ
SCCA Proton Therapy, A ProCure Center, Seattle, WA
Provision Center for Proton Therapy, Knoxville, TN
Scripps Proton Therapy Center, San Diego, CA
Francis H. Burr Proton Therapy Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
S. Lee Kling Proton Therapy Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO
UCSF Medical Center, Davis, CA (low energy system, treats only ocular tumors)
Mayo Clinic announced this month that it plans to
open its new Rochester, Minnesota, proton center in June of 2015, bringing the total number of proton centers in the U.S. to 16. Thirteen additional proton centers are either under construction or are in the planning stages.
Practitioners of competing technologies have claimed over the years that proton therapy was no better than conventional radiation. Studies and patient surveys have proven them wrong. Also, prestigious institutions, such as those above would never have invested more than $2 Billion in 15 proton centers if proton therapy were not a superior technology.
All this, because of a visionary physician/physicist by the name of Dr. James M. Slater, and a bold decision by a then little known Seventh-day Adventist institution in Southern California called Loma Linda University Medical Center."
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