Scripps Health to open proton therapy center; second in the West
By APTuesday, June 22, 2010
Scripps Health to open proton therapy center
SAN DIEGO — Scripps Health is opening a $185 million cancer treatment center in San Diego that will use proton beams to target tumors.
It’ll be the second hospital-based proton therapy center in the West. Loma Linda University Medical Center opened the nation’s first in 1990, in San Bernardino County.
Groundbreaking for the 102,000-square-foot Scripps Proton Therapy Center is expected next month. It will open in 2013.
The center will be built on a 7-acre site in Mira Mesa and will be capable of treating 2,400 patients a year.
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