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proton beam therapy

  • Maryland
    Why The Region's Hospitals Want Proton Beam Therapy
    WYPR's Fraser Smith and Jenny Gold of Kaiser Health News talk about the new proton beam therapy center being built near the University of Maryland Health…
  • A construction worker paints walls at the Maryland Proton Treatment Center in Baltimore. Each of the center's five rooms will contain a massive piece of equipment that will rotate around a cancer patient to deliver a special kind of radiation.
    Proton Beam Therapy Sparks Hospital Arms Race
    Jenny Gold
    Local officials in Washington D.C., are on the verge of approving two high-tech radiation facilities for treating cancer at a total cost of $153 million. The treatment these hospitals would offer costs twice as much as standard radiation, but hasn't been shown to work any better for most cancers.