ABOUT THE PROTONPALS
Thank you for your interest in this patient support and education newsletter. We started storing the monthly newsletters in May 2009. If you think your friends and family would be interested please forward the link to them, plus there is an icon where you can share these newsletters via Facebook and Twitter.
Please visit our web site, read anecdotes
about how our Pals have handled the treatment and the side effects
if any. If you're a survivor please let us know how you're doing. There are many other resources at this site including a series
of My Journeys from patients who have been treated at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center - Proton Therapy Center (whew! this is the official title) and a slide show showing the journeys the men take as
they go through treatment.
After I was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2006 and was making my decision on how to be treated, I had very little information on the recently opened M. D. Anderson Proton Therapy Center. Certainly none that was easy to access from the patients point of view, so I relied heavily on Bob Marckini's (ProtonBob) book and his work at Loma Linda. In early 2007, while in treatment and sitting in the gown room, I started collecting the email addresses of my "classmates" on a clipboard as we shared treatment recovery information.
Along the way I was helped by many Pals like Peter Taaffe and his wife Carol, Rich McMillan, Bob Jernigan, Buddy Zeagler, Ab Fay and Ban Capron who's contributed significantly to the content of the web site and the organization of the information. Ban was treated in 2008 when he joined me and we started distributing his "My Journey." He's encouraged me every step of the way and brought in the concept of the "one pagers". In the summer of 2009, I was also helped financially by Joe Filler and Larry Hock's ProtonPals Summer 2009 class. They had held a rather large staff appreciation night and with the remaining contributions they donated it to the ProtonPals. From those funds we were able start using Constant Contact for the newsletter.
ProtonPals is a group who chose proton beam therapy to cure their cancer and were treated at the Proton Therapy Center. The "Pals" formed a network in order to: - Stay up to date with treatment cure results.
- Provide support to others and to Center activities.
- be informed on any side-effects.
- Promote proton radiation since it's widely regarded to have a significant clinical advantage over conventional x-rays.
- Attract and nurture more Pals who support our mission and our cause patient-to-patient and friend-to-friend.
ProtonPals Web Site Joe Landry March 31, 2010 The organization, ProtonPals, Ltd. a Texas Corporation, applied and
received a 501 (c) (3) exemption in June 2009 from the IRS and operates under a
board of directors as a public charity. The directors are Joe Landry, Ban Capron, and Peter Taaffe.
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