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Treatment Options => Radiation / Radiosurgery => Topic started by: KeepSmiling on January 24, 2013, 06:31:54 am

Title: Proton Therapy-
Post by: KeepSmiling on January 24, 2013, 06:31:54 am

Phone Numbers/Web sites  for Proton Therapy Centers

Mass. General, Boston, Massachusetts:
1-800-388-4644
 www.massgeneral.org

Loma Linda, California:
1-800-776-8667
www.protons.com

MD Anderson, Houston, Texas:
1-800-392-1611
www.mdanderson.org

Bloomington, Indiana:
1-866-487-6774.
www.mpri.org

Oklahoma ProCure Treatment Center:
Kathryn Summers (Intake Coordinator)
405-773-6703
1-888-847-2640
concierge@okc.procure..com

Roberts Proton Therapy Center, Philadelphia, PA.:
1-800-789-PENN (7366)
http://www.pennmedicine.org/perelman/proton/

CDH Proton Center, Warrenville, Illinois 60555
1-877-887-5807
www.procure.com

University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute
2015 North Jefferson Street
Jacksonville FL 32205
http://www.floridaproton.org/what-is-proton-therapy

University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute

(877) 686-6009

(904) 588-1800

Title: Re: Proton Therapy-
Post by: nftwoed on January 25, 2013, 04:57:49 pm

Hello;

   This is just personal, but I prefer 1. MD Anderson, Houston, Texas 2. Mass. General 3. Loma Linda
   The others I haven't read much about. I suppose procedurely, they are all similar, but not exactly the same. Drs. do differ and a pt. must follow where they feel most confident ( their "gut" feeling ). Number of Txs of strictly ANs is important to a degree.

Title: Re: Proton Therapy-
Post by: skipg on January 26, 2013, 05:19:26 pm

Remember the machine designs are the same, it is the expertise of the team that will decide the end result. Doctor Alan Thorton from the Hampton University Proton Treatment Institute (HUPTI) and his team came from MGH originally. They then setup the Indiana University Health Proton Therapy Center (formerly Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute). In 2010 the team came to HUPTI. I consulted with them in August of 2012 and started treatments in Oct 2012 with completion Nov 20, 2012. I believ you could not find a more qualified and caring group of individuals anywhere (of course I am biased).

Hampton University Proton Therapy Institute
40 Enterprise Parkway
Hampton, University 23666
www.hamptonproton.org
757-251-6800

Skip

Title: Re: Proton Therapy-
Post by: BeckyMax on January 26, 2013, 08:43:21 pm

Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. louis recently installed a proton machine also...the first of its kind.

http://www.barnesjewish.org/innovate/winter12/more-powerful-radiation-treatment-coming-to-the-Siteman-Cancer-Center

Becky