About ProCure Treatment Centers, Inc.

ProCure Treatment Centers, Inc. (ProCure) is a privately held medical services company that provides proton therapy to patients with cancer. ProCure’s comprehensive approach begins with the development of proton therapy centers and continues through the delivery of clinical care.

ProCure was founded by John Cameron, Ph.D., to improve the lives of patients with cancer by increasing access to proton therapy. Dr. Cameron, a pioneer in the field of particle physics, played a pivotal role in the creation of the Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute (MPRI), Bloomington, Ind., the third proton therapy center to be developed in the United States. When Dr. Cameron founded ProCure in 2005, he brought together a skilled senior management team of proton therapy experts, who, prior to joining ProCure, played a role in advancing proton therapy technology, construction and operation at a number of the centers currently operating or under development in the United States and internationally.

ProCure's Comprehensive Solution

ProCure simplified and standardized the complex process of developing and operating proton therapy centers and provides management leadership and a comprehensive solution for the design, construction, financing, staffing, training and day-to-day operations of world-class proton therapy centers.

The ProCure Difference

ProCure provides the most complete and efficient solution to successfully bring protons to patients. ProCure:

  • ensures certainty and reduces time, cost and effort to build a proton therapy center;
  • focuses on delivering a positive, patient-centric experience;
  • utilizes the most innovative, cutting edge technology;
  • provides state-of-the-art proton therapy training and staff development at the world's only proton training center;
  • offers a team of proton experts with unparalleled experience in training, design, construction and facility operations;
  • is supported by an advisory board led by renowned clinical and academic experts in proton therapy.

ProCure Proton Therapy Centers

ProCure is the only company in the world with a proton therapy center open and treating patients, another under construction and four more in development.

  • ProCure’s first center, the ProCure Proton Therapy Center in Oklahoma City, opened in July 2009, a world-record 27 months after breaking ground.
  • ProCure’s network of proton therapy centers includes the Oklahoma City center, a center in suburban Chicago under construction and scheduled to open and treat patients in early 2011, and centers under development in Seattle, Somerset, N.J., Detroit and Boca Raton, Fla. ProCure is exploring additional opportunities across the country.

ProCure's Training and Development Center (TDC)

ProCure's TDC is the world's first and only facility dedicated to proton therapy training and development.

The TDC:

  • offers advanced clinical, technical, interpersonal and administrative training geared specifically to the needs of radiation oncologists, medical physicists, dosimetrists, radiation therapists and other staff involved in proton therapy treatment.
  • features three treatment simulators:
    • Inclined-beam room that simulates the beam's ability to be brought in at two angles:  horizontal and 60 degrees inclined from the horizontal
    • Gantry room that simulates the beam rotating 360 degrees around the patient
    • Fully operational CT scanner, a state-of-the-art CT scanner with 4D capabilities that trains radiation therapists to define or "map" the location of the tumor to enable precise treatment with the beam
  • offers before-the-job training, enabling staff to be trained and ready to treat patients before a proton therapy center is opened, ensuring that patient treatments can begin in an efficient and safe manner while reducing the start-up time.

ProCure Proton Therapy Technology Development

ProCure is advancing the technology used in proton therapy through the development of clinical innovations such as:

  • The Inclined Beam Room - a new treatment delivery design and technology that brings the proton beam into the treatment room at two angles: horizontal and 60 degrees inclined from horizontal. This improved delivery system replaces the need for multiple full-gantry treatment rooms
  • Image Guided Radiotherapy (IGRT) - a robotic-based X-ray imaging system developed to ensure precise patient positioning and accurate alignment for treatment, an advance for both proton and photon radiation treatments
  • Robotic Patient Positioning - a computer-controlled robotic arm developed to move patients precisely into the treatment position

ProCure Clinical Affiliations

ProCure collaborates with leading radiation oncology practices and hospitals to develop and operate proton therapy centers:

  • Oklahoma City: Radiation Medicine Associates and INTEGRIS Health
  • Chicago: Radiation Oncology Consultants and Central DuPage Hospital
  • Boca Raton: Boca Raton Proton Therapy
  • Detroit: William Beaumont Hospital
  • New Jersey: Princeton Radiology Associates
  • Seattle: Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, UW Medicine and Seattle Children’s)

ProCure Academic Affiliations

ProCure is advancing proton therapy education and research through the following alliances:

  • a collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania to advance proton therapy training, research and development. ProCure's network of centers will be linked into UPENN's research protocols.
  • a collaboration with Ivy Tech Community College, Bloomington, Ind., to offer a proton therapy certificate program that will train and credential students enrolled in the College's Radiation Therapy Program.
  • a collaboration with Oklahoma State University to create undergraduate and graduate programs in medical physics to train the next generation of medical professionals in delivering proton therapy.

Web site:  www.procure.com

Media Contact:
Andrea Johnson, PCI
312/558-1770
ajohnson@pcipr.com