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While doing some housekeeping on the ProtonPals web site and assembling some news for the February newsletter, I re-discovered the video about Pencil Beam therapy that was published last year. It’s an excellent review of the technology and the advances being brought to Houston and the nation by M.D. Anderson. This pencil beam gantry was brought on line and patients were treated starting in late February early March 2009. It was the first proton nozzle of this type in North America, has treated more patients and is one of three in the world.THE VIDEO Video about Pencil Beam Scanning at M.D. Anderson Proton Therapy CenterTHE NEWS BACKGROUNDER Pencil Beam Newsbackgrounder at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Proton Therapy CenterTHE TECHNICAL PAPER World-First Proton Pencil beam Scanning System with FDA ApprovalA three minute program providing information about the use of pencil beam proton therapy for cancer treatment. Hear from experts at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center as well as a patient who talks about his experience.In the video look for Dr. Cox and Dr. Lee AND…1) How protons work and why better than x-rays.2) How the radiation plans are drawn with three dimensional representation on the computer systems by the oncologist and the dosimetrist.3) How the patient is positioned and gantry operates4) The “behind the scenes” look at the gantry and the synchrotron.5) What Tommy Thompson one of the patients treated at the center has to say about the treatment.Please contact me or the PTC for more information.
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