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What is the vision?
The Australian Proton Therapy Facility will be built in inner Sydney, New South Wales, less than 4 kms from the Sydney airport, and within 10 kms of Sydney's most prestigious teaching hospitals.
The facility will primarily be for the treatment of cancer, but will also be the first proton accelerator for physics and engineering research in Australia.
It will form clinical collaborations with local, interstate and international hospitals
Protons play a key role in a significant number of malignancies as either sole treatment or in combination with conventional therapy. In some clinical situations, cancers will be managed with protons entirely, whilst in others, treatment will be a combination of proton or conventional radiotherapy which will be delivered in private or public hospital radiation oncology departments.
Clinical collaborations with other centres around the world will contribute to world-class research by identifying improved ways of using protons in combination with other treatments - such as with chemotherapy and gene therapy.
Patients receiving the highest priority in the first instance will be paediatric patients, patients with central nervous system or head and neck tumours, eye disorders, lung cancer, prostate cancer and breast cancer.
The total cost of the project is approximately $170M. It will be a turn-key facility, the equipment being purchased from an established proton therapy technology provider.
The facility will be a construction of between 2 and 3 levels with a footprint of approximately 5,000m². It will comprise 4 treatment rooms, with an additional room for physics and engineering research. The facility will provide the latest in precision diagnostic tools including PET/CT, an essential compliment to precision radiotherapy.
Patient capacity after a phase-in period of about 5 years will be approximately 1,100 patients per year.
The proposed Australian Proton Therapy Facility will provide the most technologically advanced imaging, proton therapy and chemotherapy available in the world today; a centre of excellence where all types of cancers are treated by world-class staff.
The Centre might also provide quality accommodation for overseas and country patients.
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Rochester, Minnesota USA, April, 2012, One of two Mayo Clinic's proton facilities will be named in honor of Richard O Jacobson in recognition of his $100M gift to the Mayo Clinic's Proton Beam Therapy Program.http://www.mayoclinic.org/proton-beam-therapy/
Memphis, Tennessee, USA, Feb, 2012, St Jude Children's Research Hospital selects Hitachi to supply the proton therapy system
Prague, Czech Republic, Feb, 2012, Bulovka Hospital, Prague will commence treatment of the first proton therapy patients in the second half of 2012.
Boca Raton, South Florida, USA, Feb, 2012, Boca Raton Hospital signs deal for proton therapy Center.
New Jersey, New York, USA, Jan, 2012 - The ProCure Proton Therapy Center in Somerset, New Jersey/Metro New York is now accepting patients for consultation.
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Jan 26, 2012 - Varian Medical Systems (NYSE:VAR) today announced it has booked a $77M order with Saudi Particle Therapy Centre LLC to equip a new proton therapy facility at the King Fahd Medical Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Sydney, Australia, November 2011 - PTA completes first Family & Friends Capital Raising.
Stockholm, Sweden, March 17, 2011 - IBA announced today, during the signature ceremony held in Stockholm that the first cancer center in Scandinavia dedicated to proton-beam treatments, has signed with IBA (Ion Beam Applications S.A.) a definitive contract to manufacture, install and maintain a new proton therapy system.
Birmingham, England, October 2010. "Protons Birmingham - backing the bid to bring Proton Beam Therapy....."The Government has announced that High-energy proton beam therapy is coming to the NHS in Britain www.uhb.nhs.uk/Protons Birmingham.
Mira Mesa, San Diego, USA, June, 22, 2010 Scripps Health announced plans today to build a $185 million proton therapy center in Mira Mesa to treat cancer patients.