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A reminder that Dr. Andrew K. Lee will be speaking at our October group meeting on Wed. October 22 at 1 PM to be held in the conference room at the Proton Therapy Center on Old Spanish Trail. 

If you are in the Houston area please attend.  This is an opportunity to hear about the center and to ask questions about treatment and recovery.   If you are not attending but have questions please forward them to Sloane Caskey, srcaskey@mdanderson.org  or Tai Ly,  tly@mdanderson.org  or me, jelandry@sbcglobal.net.

I have questions about the proposal by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to stop reimbursement for proton therapy for prostate cancer;  and what we as a group can do in a grass roots effort to make our views known.   This is the note I received from Bob Marckini (ProtonBob).

Dear Members,
Several members have brought to my attention the fact that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have made a proposal to stop Medicare reimbursements for proton therapy for treating prostate cancer. They claim that proton therapy is more costly, not widely available, and that no current, comparative studies have been conducted to prove proton is better than conventional prostate cancer treatment therapies.
You can read about this at the following URLs:

http://www.cms.hhs.gov/mcd/ncpc_publiccomment_popup.asp?comment_id=498

http://www.cms.hhs.gov/mcd/ncpc_publiccomment_popup.asp?comment_id=360

Joe Landry

ProtonPal Graduate April 2007

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