Cancer patients who have had to travel out of the county for proton therapy treatments got some good news late in January. That’s when Boca Raton Regional Hospital announced plans to build a $120 million proton therapy center on Glades Road.
Proponents of the therapy, used only for certain types of cancer (prostate, lung and brain tumors and pediatric cancers), say it can radiate a tumor without damaging the healthy tissue around it.
The center will be built on hospital-owned land at 620 Glades Road, now home to a strip center, which will be razed.
Details about the center’s financing are expected to be released in February, a hospital spokesman said.
Earlier last month, South Florida Radiation Oncology, based in Wellington, revealed plans to spend $30 million on a proton therapy center in southern or central Palm Beach County.
Currently, the nearest proton therapy center is in Jacksonville.
— Staff reports
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