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Since the first hospital-based proton treatment center opened in California in 1990, nearly 30,000 people have received proton therapy in the United States, and more than 60,000 people worldwide.2 Experts conservatively estimate that about 250,000 cancer patients in the U.S. could benefit from proton therapy.
