Texas Center for Proton Therapy in Irving
delivered proton beam radiation treatment to its first patients on
Tuesday, opening three months ahead of its original schedule.
It’s the first
cancer treatment center of its type in North Texas. Before it opened,
Dallas-Fort Worth was the largest metropolitan area without a proton
beam cancer treatment center, with the nearest at M.D. Anderson Cancer
Center in Houston and the ProCure Proton Therapy Center in Oklahoma
City.
Texas Center for Proton Therapy is the only center in the state that
offers the latest generation proton therapy technology, including
image-guided pencil-beam scanning in multiple treatment rooms, which
delivers treatment to tumors with more precision than traditional
radiation.The accuracy of proton therapy minimizes damage to healthy tissue surrounding tumors and reduces side effects.
It’s especially important for pediatric patients whose bodies are still
growing and developing, and in adult patients with cancers in highly
sensitive areas such as the brain, spine, chest, prostate, head and neck.
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