Tampa General Hospital, the Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute, Proton Therapy Partners and Florida Urology Partners plan to build a proton therapy center in Tampa Bay that would offer patients across the West Coast of Florida access to an advanced alternative to conventional radiation treatment for cancer. The free-standing proton therapy center is expected to break ground in Tampa Bay in the second quarter of 2022.
Unlike traditional photon radiation, proton therapy delivers beams of high-energy protons to precisely targeted tumors. Proton therapy is often the preferred treatment delivery when a cancerous tumor is close to a vital structure such as the heart, brain stem and the spinal cord.
The Tampa Bay region has been the only major market in Florida without a proton therapy center Read more.
