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What is Proton Therapy?

"A patient who undergoes conventional radiation therapy is exposed to X-rays. As they pass through both healthy and diseased tissue, X-rays leave a track of damage - much like a bullet. This damage can help destroy tumors, but may cause significant harm to surrounding areas.

Protons cause less damage to healthy tissue as they enter the body, and deposit the majority of their destructive energy at the tumor site. As a result, normal, healthy tissue receives less exposure to radiation, resulting in fewer treatment complications."

Florida Proton Therapy Cancer Patients
HARDER on cancer. EASIER on you.

Welcome to the University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute

A New Option in Cancer Treatment

University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute

Until recently, the treatment of cancer was often just as frightening as the diagnosis. It doesn't have to be that way. At the University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute, we're committed to changing the way cancer is treated, and the way cancer treatment is experienced. That's why we're developing the newest, least invasive, and most promising tool in use today: Proton Therapy.


Latest Developments

affiliated with the University of Florida > Read the Winter 2008 issue of Precision, a quarterly newsletter from University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute.

> Now treating cancers of the head and neck, base of the skull, sarcoma, pediatrics, prostate, pancreas and pituitary.

> More than 10,000 proton therapy treatments delivered to patients.

> Florida Magazine "The Next Step"

> Listen to WJCT-FM 89.9 Morning Edition interview with Dr. Nancy Mendenhall

> First Coast News "Proton Therapy Helps Fight Cancer" October 17, 2007

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