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Starting out, I apologize. I'll bet you didn't know that I've been on vacation. Well not exactly on
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vacation but it's been a welcome break. Starting mid May and especially through the month of July I've been very busy helping my daughter start up a fabrication business in Lafayette, Louisiana. I know this is probably a poor excuse for not writing to you and covering what has been happening at the Proton Center, but I hope you'll understand and consider this my vacation for 2011. While I've been successful in this PC disaster recovery effort, I've not been successful in convincing any Pals to be part time editors.
This was the situation. No sooner had my daughter and her husband purchased a sheet metal fabrication business, when they experienced a hard drive failure of his most valuable tool acquisition in the whole shop. It is an automated pattern cutter driven by an 11 year old program running on a Windows 95 PC. Very expensive to replace. He had experienced a hard drive crash on his PC with no back up.
Where do you find a PC that runs Windows 95 and where do you find a copy of a Windows 95 license? Well one of our Pals, Dave, helped with a newer monitor and an earlier Pentium that runs Windows 95.
When I travel back to Louisiana this Friday I'll install a newer Pentium 4 system with back up and recovery and remote support from Houston. The software has been updated to run on Windows XP Pro.
Oh, and I didn't mention the lightning strike at our house on Wednesday just as I was beginning to write the newsletter. We lost several electronic devices including the main desktop computer that I use to do ProtonPals work and including the large monitor which is a ProtonPal asset. I got the fixed "main frame" back last Thursday with a refurbished motherboard and was able to bring up the two 80 Gigabyte hard drives.
Well so much for how "stuff" happens and what I do for my mental exercises.
At MDACC Proton Therapy center, July and August are vacation months for the social workers and for the monthly prostate cancer patients meetings. Thing will start up quickly in September and I've noted there are 3 conferences, one by our own Proton Center.
In Gratitude,
Joe Landry |
Proton Therapy Education Conference
| Save the Date for this conference at MDACC
On September 9-10 a conference will be held at MDACC to update health care professionals on the recent advances in radiation oncology using proton beam therapy. Proton Conference at MDACC From the early planning I remember Dr. Lee spoke of participants being able to tour the center on Saturday the 10th. I'll let you know if interested ProtonPals can attend, but be sure to let your primary care doctor and urologist know of this conference.
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Free Prostate Health Conference
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Protect Your Prostate: Get the facts
Learn what current cancer screening guidelines mean for you, how online educational tools can help you make screening decisions and current prostate cancer treatments. This is a half day conference at the South Campus Research building on Fanin and Old Spanish Trail Prostate Health Conference 2011
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Anderson Network Cancer Survivorship Conference
| Save these dates September 16-17, 2011
The survivorship conference Conf. Brief.held annually in September for 23 years is open to all cancer patients and their family, caregivers and friends regardless of where they were treated. It is significantly underwritten by various parties and very affordable. This year the main featured speakers will be:
- Dave Dravecky a major league pitcher and survivor,
- Barbara Padilla, nationally known singer and first runner up in America's Got Talent 2009.
- Sean Swarner, the first cancer survivor to climb Mt. Everest
- Hans Rueffert, survivor, chef and author of "eat Like There's No Tomorrow".
Early registration ends on September 9th. A brief of the event The Event
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| Survivorship Conference |  23rd Annual Patient and Caregiver ConferenceAnderson Network's Cancer Survivorship Conference is being held on September 16 th and 17th at the Omni Houston Hotel Westside. This year's featured speakers will be: - Dave Dravecky a major league pitcher and survivor,
- Barbara Padilla, nationally known singer and first runner up in America's Got Talent 2009.
- Sean Swarner, the first cancer survivor to climb Mt. Everest
- Hans Rueffert, survivor, chef and author of "Eat Like There's No Tomorrow
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About the ProtonPals Organization
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We're a group who chose proton beam therapy to cure their cancer and were treated at University of Texas M.D. Anderson Proton Therapy Center in Houston, Texas. The "Pals" formed a network in order to:
Stay up to date with treatment cure resultsProvide support to others and Center activitiesBe informed on any side- effectsPromote proton radiation since it's widely regarded to have a significant advantage over conventional x-rays.Attract and nurture more Pals who support our cause, patient-to-patient and friend-to-friend
Support ProtonPals by letting us know how you're doing. That is so important to newly diagnosed men and their wives and partners. As a former patient we'd all welcome your help in getting the word out about proton radiation and how you're doing. Please donate using the Donate Icon below or mail a check made out to ProtonPals, Ltd.(we're a tax deductible non-profit) at the address above. Read more about about it on the website How to Help - Giving
Sincerely, 
Joe Landry
ProtonPals, Ltd.
ProtonPals, Ltd. is a 501 (c) (3) public charity incorporated in Texas.
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