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"No child should have to leave central Ohio for medical care," the CEO of Nationwide Children's Hospital said at a ribbon-cutting event Wednesday for a new $100 million proton therapy center in Columbus, Ohio.
The center is the first of its kind in central Ohio and will treat both pediatric and adult cancer patients, the Columbus Dispatch reports.
"This will be a game changer for pediatric and adult patients," says Dr.Arnab Chakravati, chair of Ohio State University's Department of Radiation Oncology.
Unlike conventional radiation therapy, proton therapy uses particle energy beam technology to more directly target the tumor and avoid unaffected tissues.Chakravati likens the protons'painting' the tumorto artists precisely using a paintbrush on their masterpieces.
There are 40 proton therapy centers in the US, and Ohio State is one of just a handful of institutions in the world able to research this new high-dose proton therapy known as FLASH, which can target treatment to a pinpoint and deliver it in a 10th of a second.
The center's rooms have a "Star Trek-like, very futuristic feel," says Grant Mckinley, operations director for the center.
Patients will eventually make their way to one of the center's proton therapy gantries, which
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