Potential Demand for Proton Therapy

  • According to the American Cancer Society there are 1.4 million new cancer cases per year.
  • Of these, approximately 60 percent (840,000 per year) will seek radiation therapy at some point during care.
  • Using a conservative estimate that 30 percent of these 840,000 patients would benefit from proton therapy, approximately 250,000 patients could seek this technology.
  • Today’s five operating centers can treat an estimated 6,000 patients.
  • Using the most conservative estimates, it will take 56 centers at current capacity levels to treat 84,000 patients (160 centers to treat 250,000). 

Source:      American Cancer Society Facts and Figures 2007-2008

Created October 2008
 
 

 
 
 
 

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