Proton Therapy for Prostate Cancer:

[PHI Redacted] a proton beam radiation treated prostate cancer survivor. The Proton Beam treatment for prostate cancer is safer and as effective as other external beam radiation methods. It has fewer side effects and there is less collateral tissue damage than happens with x-ray beam radiation.

The only people who are denigrating proton beam radiation are those that don''''t make any money from patients who go elsewhere for this superior treatment. Medicine is a business!

Before selecting proton beam radiation for [PHI Redacted] treatment [PHI Redacted] interviewed a couple of radiation oncologists who use x-ray beam radiation for their patients and they told [PHI Redacted] "That they could do just as well as proton beam", they did not say better. The over 3000 members of "The Brotherhood of the Balloon" for the most part can verify my statements about the lack of side effects and the quality of life enhancements of proton beam treatment.

The argumernt that there are few proton centers operating at this time is also bogus. There are several (at least 5) in operation including MD Anderson in Houston and many more being built including Walter Reed Army hospital in coordination with a major Pennsylvania University Medical Center.

Proton centers are expensive. They are used for very specialized cancer treatments that cannot be satisfactorily completed by other methods. Without the large number of prostate patients to carry the overhead, many children will not get the life saving proton treatments that they need.