The Mevion S250 accelerator, being lifted by a crane as it is delivered to the UF Health Cancer Center. Photo: Orlando Health
Nov. 12, 2014 — Mevion Medical Systems will deliver its Mevion S250 proton therapy superconducting synchrocyclotron accelerator to the University of Florida Health Cancer Center at Orlando Health. The accelerator will treat cancer in adults and children.
Proton therapy precisely delivers radiation doses to tumors while sparing much of the surrounding healthy tissue, thus making it ideal for treating pediatric patients, as well as adult cancers in sensitive locations such as near the heart or brain. As Central Florida’s most advanced cancer center, the UF Health Cancer Center – Orlando Health is the first hospital in the region to install a proton therapy system. Installation of the accelerator will take just a few days, and construction of the proton center is expected to be completed next year.
The MEVION S250 is a proton therapy platform. It requires less space and has lower capital and operational costs than traditional systems. Also, it is a flexible solution; any health care organization can install one single-room Mevion proton thereapy system, or as many as they need to treat their patient population.
Like the rest of the Mevion S250 system, the accelerator itself is highly advanced, compact, patented technology. Due to its small size, it is the only proton beam cyclotron accelerator that can easily be delivered and installed. Consequently, its journey from Mevion’s Boston area headquarters to Orlando was a simple drive down I-95. Designed and manufactured in the United States, the accelerator delivered to Orlando is one of only six in the entire world.
The first Mevion S250 was installed last December at the Kling Center for Proton Therapy at Barnes-Jewish Hospital at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., and is already treating more than 20 pediatric and adult cancer patients per day. The system is running with 97% uptime.
Five additional Mevion S250s are under installation at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J.; Stephenson Cancer Center at the University of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City, Okla.; Ackerman Cancer Center in Jacksonville, Fla.; University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center in Cleveland, Ohio; and MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C.
For more information: www.mevion.com
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