New treatment center, in Ohio?

[Guest guest]

Not a done deal yet, but promising. Maybe the next step beyond Proton

therapy. Progress continues, thank goodness.

" A Columbus developer is negotiating with the Cleveland Clinic to

operate a cancer-treatment center in Dublin that Ohio State University

passed on last year.

The hospital system is involved in talks to build a $300 million

particle-therapy treatment facility that could be the first of its

kind in the United States and would bring the clinic name to central Ohio.

Several U.S. hospitals have machines that use protons to destroy

cancer cells, but the Siemens technology goes further with carbon-ion

therapy.

Proton therapy uses protons stripped from hydrogen molecules to attack

tumors; the machine the clinic would operate would deliver heavier --

and more aggressive -- carbon particles, but also would cost tens of

millions of dollars more. "

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/health/stories/2007/12/13/Clinic.ART_ART_12\

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