Cost vs Benefits: The Controversy Over Proton Beam Radiotherapy

Proton beam therapy systems are now available at more than a dozen sites across the United States — including, most recently, the Miami Cancer Institute’s new Proton Therapy Center (scheduled to be unveiled March 15, 2018). These facilities are very expensive. At more than $225 million each, they’ve been called the single most expensive medical device ever built.1 Perhaps not surprisingly, treatment costs exceed those of traditional photon external-beam radiotherapy (EBRT) modalities.1
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