Mayo Clinic has announced plans to build proton beam therapy facilities at its Rochester, Minn., and Scottsdale, Ariz., cancer center sites, a combined $370 million project, according to a Mayo Clinic news release.
Each facility will offer four treatment rooms for pencil beam scanning, an advanced technology that uses narrower beams than traditional proton beams. Few proton therapy centers in the country offer pencil beam scanning exclusively.
Among benefits such as shorter treatment times and reduced side effects, this alternative to radiation is also considered more cost-effective for patients.
The proton beam therapy program will be fully integrated into Mayo’s three-site cancer center, which offers care in Rochester and Scottsdale as well as Jacksonville, Fla.
Mayo Clinic was recently named in Becker’s Hospital Review’s list of 30 Hospitals With Great Oncology Programs.
Read the Mayo Clinic release on its new proton beam therapy program.
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Each facility will offer four treatment rooms for pencil beam scanning, an advanced technology that uses narrower beams than traditional proton beams. Few proton therapy centers in the country offer pencil beam scanning exclusively.
Among benefits such as shorter treatment times and reduced side effects, this alternative to radiation is also considered more cost-effective for patients.
The proton beam therapy program will be fully integrated into Mayo’s three-site cancer center, which offers care in Rochester and Scottsdale as well as Jacksonville, Fla.
Mayo Clinic was recently named in Becker’s Hospital Review’s list of 30 Hospitals With Great Oncology Programs.
Read the Mayo Clinic release on its new proton beam therapy program.
Read about other 30 Best Hospitals in America:
-Cleveland Clinic’s Hillcrest Hospital Opens $163M Expansion
-Duke Earns Praise for Community Care Model in North Carolina
-UCSF Breaks Ground on $1.5B Medical Center at Mission Bay