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ProtonPals Web Site Newsletter ArchivesThis is a short note to let you know there will be a support group meeting in the Proton Center on Thursday, October 22 nd at 1:00 PM. Chuck Merrifield, the Proton Center's Radiation Therapy Supervisor will be having a Question and Answer session. I met several Pals yesterday while I was there for my 2 1/2 year check up and several of the patients are going to attend. There's also a tour later Thursday but that was booked completely according to Kathia. Maybe a word to the right person would encourage the Center to hold more that one a month.
The regular monthly October newsletter is being put to bed as they say in the trade and will be mailed to you on Friday. However since it was not quite ready, I thought I'd mail this special short one to let you know about the support group meeting.
Bob Marckini,
ProtonBob, writes in his October newsletter that the data is mounting about the advantage of radiotherapy over conventional prostate cancer surgery. Bob writes, "if conventional radiotherapy, which deposits 75% of it's radiation on healthy tissue scores that well, imagine how much better proton therapy must be, where 3 to 5 times less radiation is deposited on healthy tissue."
Look for more information coming in the regular newsletter.
