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Article: Proton Therapy Center Nearing Completion.(Brief Article)
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- R & D
- Article date:
- August 1, 1999
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The facility will be used to destroy cancerous tumors quickly and in a highly controlled manner.
Focused, high-energy proton beams can destroy tumors in ways that are often superior to other treatment options. That's why hospital-based accelerators designed for proton therapy are being planned across the nation. Lawrence Berkeley (Calif.) National Laboratory (LBNL)--where proton therapy was invented nearly 50 years ago--is leading the effort to commercialize this therapeutic technique. Its latest collaboration, with General Atomics Corp., San Diego, Calif., involves construction of the Northeast Proton Therapy Center at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston; ...